A Harvest Moon Letter
Sweet Maryanne, Remember the roof top garden at the Victorian College of the Arts where water pours down windows like a million tears? Where the Art School once was? Remember when we drank tea out of thermoses? Chai tea, sweetened with so much honey it was thick and syrupy in our mouths. We laid back […]
A Harvest Moon Letter
Dear D, I spent 8 years homesick for Ballarat and breathed a huge sigh of relief the day we drove back into town. Back into our new house. Back home. Back where my grandparents had walked the streets I walk on. Back where I felt safe. And I hadn’t felt safe for such a long […]
A Harvest Moon Letter –
One day I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter, to all the friends I have known – Neil Young, Harvest Moon Dear B, Sometimes the screaming in my head is so loud. I hear all the people in my life who have hated me, my parents, my ex-husband, his parents. I hear all […]
A Harvest Moon Letter –
One day I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter, to all the friends, I have known – Neil Young, Harvest Moon Dear P, When I met you, I was big and round and bloated from chemo and cancer drugs. My hair was barely growing back, my eyebrows and eyelashes weren’t growing back at […]
A Harvest Moon Letter
One Day I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter to all the friends I have known – Neil Young, Harvest Moon Dear E, When I met you, I was doing night shifts that ran into days shifts and back into night shifts. I would get home at 4 am and get up again […]
A Harvest Moon Letter
One day I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter to all the friends I have known – Neil Young, Harvest Moon Dear J, There were so many wasted years where for one reason or another, some I understand and some I don’t, some that were just plain laziness or some because in our youth […]
Dear Daughters and Sons – how to not become a hermit in a knitted beanie.
Dear Daughters and Sons, All my life I have been ’emotionally fluid’ you know – like waves, large ones that roll and crash about without direction. Its gotten worse as I’ve gotten older which is a bummer because I expected to grow wise and become able to control my emotions. Not just grow older. I […]
Dear Daughters and Sons on Day 2. To be Happy Put Your Head in the Sand
Dear Daughters, Sisters and Sons This is what I always do. In my mind I line up all the wonderful women I know, admire and love and then I focus on how far short I fall of them. This is not a good idea. But I’m not going to stop doing it, so instead what […]