Fresh Start
In disclosure of full honesty, I gladly shut the door this morning on my family as they left for the day. The silky threads atop their heads smothered with my kisses, still on my lips. I actually...
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I think when you just give in and listen to whatever music is in your soul, it’s pure joy to jump around, dance and laugh. I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my...
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Last night, in the middle of the night, Sully called out to me. Mom. In a daze, I went to him and slipped into his bed. This is what I do; no sense in losing any sleep. I turned on my side, my back...
View ArticleSmoke and Sparkles
I am rooted, but I flow. (Virginia Woolf)Coffee and words this morning. Our world is covered in a blanket of fog and on my desk smoke swirls. Lately my prayer has been more like-minded beautiful...
View ArticleRosie
We stood huddled together outside in the yard. A thin smattering of dark brown mulch covers the frozen ground. The tree's branches above reach out thin bony arms, bare, still. Moments before I dug a...
View ArticleSpinning
In my head, I place words on linen thread. I push them down and change them around. When the language takes shape and I can recognize my own story, I clasp the ends of the thread together and I wear...
View ArticleGet In My Belly! | Bourbon Bacon Jam
A couple of years ago, I was at a local social event I had been invited to as a woman writer and blogger in the community. I went solo and hesitant, not knowing another soul there. I went with...
View ArticleThe In-Between
I was sitting on my porch eating a bowl of yogurt for lunch yesterday, but before that I was out for the morning with my friend. We chatted over breakfast and then strolled in the brilliant sunlight...
View ArticleMy Best
These two.They're no longer growing on me, but up the length of my body with a thriving speed. One stands by my side and I no longer have to lean down to meet his eyes. The other is just below,...
View ArticlePanna Cotta in Strawberry Soup with Thyme
Yesterday I had a couple of my friends over for lunch. I made Ina Garten's Greek Panzanella - a recipe I have made many times, and for dessert I made panna cotta in strawberry soup with thyme - a...
View ArticleIntroducing Katie Neuman | Prints
I recently brought to life a dream and vision I've had for quite some time.Last year was a wonderful time of growth for myself and for my photography business. I could clearly distinguish the roots...
View ArticleSaltwater Birds and Mountain Air
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." -J.D. SalingerI was sitting at the dining room table the other day,...
View ArticleFaith, Light, and Chocolate Chip Muffins
". . . that detail outside ourselves that brings us to ourselves, was here before us, knew we would come, and see beyond us." -Adrienne RichLast week I had a moment when I laid my wavering faith down...
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The problem with taking time off from writing is that when you do decide that you must write again despite the voice in your head telling you to just keep taking time off, your head and heart and soul...
View ArticleString of Moons
I stood in the middle of the dirt road. Here and there a raven swooped low, silent. I inched over for a hint of shade, rolled my bare foot in my Teva over a pile of crunchy gravel in the shape of an...
View ArticleMore Beauty, More Wild
The boys and I went on a day hike last week. We set out with water, granola bars, two cameras - one for me and one for Theo - and nothing but hope for a really good adventure. On the trail, Theo mostly...
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Never since they were small children had they clustered about her so, and never since then had she been so aware of the smell of their hair, their softness, breathiness, abruptness. It filled her with...
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"For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know...
View ArticleRecently | This and That
My son's 6th birthday was yesterday. For his first birthday I made Smitten Kitchen's recipe for peach cupcakes with brown sugar frosting. I looked back through photographs to confirm what I thought was...
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