Spittin’ out some wordsCuz I’m like blah-blah from blah-blah.I don’t know how I do itIt just comes out of my brain, yah. I hope to bring some goodAnd I hope it’s something useful!But really, half the timeI think I’m writing something awful. Some days my thoughts are lightAnd some days they’re really heavy,But all in […]

I was the last human out of bed this morning, out of the four who slept in it. I had two dogs still next to me and the three cats were hovering about, waiting to be fed.  It was already 7:45 in the morning. I didn’t have to be up before seven today because my […]

The first time I took a vacation on my own, without kids and not visiting any family member or a friend, was a few days after I turned 35. I flew to an island in Belize.  It was just for a week, nothing crazy. But it was the most fun I’ve ever had in my […]

I woke up this morning with no Internet. I was a bit panicky at first because I had to join my writing group on Zoom in a few minutes. I went to reboot the modem and the router but still nothing. Oh, well. Or so I thought.  How bad does life get without the Internet? […]

Do you know what I need? I need new systems in life because my old ones no longer work. I’ve got new goals, new aspirations. Out with the old, in with the new!  I’ve taken on a part-time remote job that gets me excited, and I’ve joined a writing club that meets daily at seven […]

Less is more. What does that mean? Less means less. What the heck are you talking about??? Well, it seems like what you leave out says a lot about you. In writing, not spoon-feeding words to the reader lets them imagine more and come up with their version of the story and what it means […]

I didn’t have a cat as a pet until I was 12 years old, but she was the neighbor’s cat. I started feeding her regularly, and she came by almost every day. Eventually, I snuck her into the house at night, and she’d sleep on my chest. I’d wake up the following day, my rib […]

We’re packing up our campsite this morning and heading home today. I get up and start to get ready while everyone else was still in bed. My husband, half-awake, peeks over at me, “I’m glad this is over.” And I bust out laughing, forgetting for a moment that the kids were still asleep.  “Yes!” I […]

I lived in Haiti once. My family moved there for my dad’s work and we stayed there for three years. I was nine years old. At first, I did not like living there. I missed my life back in the Philippines. But after a few months, I settled in nicely at my new school and […]

This morning, I didn’t wake up to a warm home in our cozy bed. Instead, I woke up to 30-degree Fahrenheit weather in a popup camper, tucked under a twin blanket that barely covered me, my four-year-old son, and my husband. I spoke in the middle of the night to bitch about how cold it […]