The lingering wisps of a woman’s hairspray waft over me in the produce section of the grocery store. I look up from the drippy heads of red leaf lettuce. I...... Read More

We walk in circles sit in circles talk in circles. We shoot hoops on the basketball court and bathe in the shallow creek with hoots and hollers as the cold...... Read More

          Empty your mind, they say. Concentrate on a sound. Let it go. Find your inner… Find Look Seek Let it go There is that irony...... Read More

It starts with your first birthday.  Your mother gathers the other mothers and you eat cake for the first time. Those other babies come in the door with the other...... Read More

Having been taught to honor my ancestors from earliest memory I grew up inside a treasure box of memorabilia with the insistence I inspect it, and learn the story of...... Read More

            I have a “move a body friend”. We have known each other for sixty-eight years. What a lot of living we have done together...... Read More

Last month, two days after I celebrated a milestone birthday, I had the rare privilege of revisiting my adolescence, in a bittersweet evening that filled me with joy and reawakened...... Read More

This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after...... Read More

This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after...... Read More

This month Women Writing for (a) Change-Bloomington poets are participating in National Poetry Writing Month.  Every day we will offer up a new  poem by a writer in our community.  Check back after...... Read More