Musings

30 Jul, 2021

Law of Gravity

Nancy Admin2021-07-30T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Musings, Poetry, Prayer|Tags: Caroline Myss, Chakras, depression, Earth, forest, gravity, lock down, Mother Earth, ocean, Pandemic, planet, Poetry, Prayer, root, Sacraments, summer reading, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can|

This summer I’ve been re-reading one of my favorite spiritual books, Why People Don’t Heal And How They Can, written by medical intuitive Caroline Myss, back in 1997. The book covers many topics, [...]

16 Jul, 2021

My Elusive Feet

Nancy Admin2021-07-16T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Body Image, Musings, Poetry, Summer|Tags: acrophobia, body image, fear, feet, potential, Shoes, trust, turtles|

Elusive feet stretching away from the rest of my body you are a mysterious duo. Earthbound like two turtles you spread your toes wide and flat refusing to conform to [...]

18 Jun, 2021

Sheltering-in-Place: final edition?

Nancy Admin2021-06-18T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Film, Hope, Musings, Possibility, Sheltering-in-Place, Solstice, Summer, Summer Reading|Tags: A Jury of Her Peers, Babette's Feast, Brit Bennett, emerging, Flash Fiction, Ghost Owl, Isak Dinesen, novels, Red-tailed Hawk, summer reading, Susan Glaspell, The Vanishing Half, Yellow-Billed Magpie|

Hello, dear readers. How are you? I am fine. Well, kinda fine. I am emerging slowly, as many of us are, attending to things that have been put off too long—dental appointments, household repairs, [...]

30 Apr, 2021

My Insomnia Gossips About Me Behind My Back

Nancy Admin2021-04-30T06:00:00+00:00Categories: dreamscape, Feminism, Gossip, Imagination, Insomnia, Memory, Musings, Mythology, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Soul, Spirituality|Tags: dreamscape, foxes, National Poetry Month, Poetry, trout|

To finish off our National Poetry Month celebration, I offer a more recent creation of mine. Thanks for reading! I made that girl, but is she grateful? No. True, [...]

9 Apr, 2021

For My Mother and Other Collectors of Strays

Nancy Admin2021-04-09T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Aging, Coming of Age, Creativity, Current Events, Families, Hope, Imagination, Memory, Musings, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Possibility, Writing|Tags: Mentors, Moms, National Poetry Month, Poetry|

April is National Poetry Month! I've dug down deep for this one, written for my Mom at least 30 years ago when she was the age that I am now. [...]

2 Apr, 2021

Easter Greetings/Pandemic Edition

Nancy Admin2021-04-02T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Easter, Families, Grace, Holidays, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Spirituality, Spring|Tags: Easter, Good Friday, good works, holidays, Jesus, Kennedy family, Pandemic, same sex couples, Special Olympics, Tim Shriver|

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that this has been a weird year. And hey!--suddenly, it's Easter again. It feels rather surreal. Like many people, I have [...]

26 Mar, 2021

The Illumination, a review

Nancy Admin2021-03-26T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Creativity, Kevin Brockmeier, Light, Literature, Magical Realism, Musings, The Illumination, Writing|

Imagine a world where suddenly and inexplicably the sick and injured begin to emit light. Open wounds shine like flash lights, acne sparkles like glitter, leukemia patients shimmer and glow, and [...]

5 Feb, 2021

Dot Dot Dot

Nancy Admin2021-02-05T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Apparitions, Creativity, dreamscape, Hope, Imagination, Magical Realism, Memory, Musings, Poetry, Possibility, Writing|Tags: Anderson Cooper, Dictionary definition, garden, Morse Code, Poetry, Writing|

Anderson Cooper came by my house to repair the busted slats on my back fence and to tell me I use too many ellipses in my writing. I told [...]

22 Jan, 2021

My Capitol

Nancy Admin2021-01-22T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Current Events, Families, home, Hope, Memory, Musings, Prayer|Tags: capitol buildings, devotion, home, inauguration, January 6th 2021, public service, state capitals|

I have lived in the city of Sacramento, the capital of California, my entire life. So it was disturbing a few weeks ago to learn that alt right organizations were threatening [...]

15 Jan, 2021

What I Miss Most

Nancy Admin2021-01-15T06:00:00+00:00Categories: Covid 19, dreamscape, Food, Imagination, Magical Realism, Musings, Writing|Tags: Americo's, Bud's Ice Cream, Dreaming, Espanol Restaurant, La Semilla, midtown Sacramento, New Helvetia Coffee House, Three Sisters, Writing, Yum's I Dream Ice Cream|

I wrote this a month ago with my Thursday night writing group, and I didn’t use too many of the prompts, though I did use these: out to lunch, for whose [...]