Writing epistles is harder than I thought it would be. So far, I feel like I’m ending up with a really bad ‘artist’s rendering’… There’s an old photo on your wall of a diner somewhere on the coast No place you’ve ever been— a gas station probably stands there now There’s a picture of you on the [...]
Tag: recovery
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 26: Lonely madcap (a poem)
Today’s Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt is to take a couple of the words invented by Shakespeare, then write a poem with those words as the title. Seven hundred and thirty days ago we laughed together one last time Momentarily tension gave way to relief I’ve come back to that laughing place this time alone (26 [...]
369 Days Later (a year in review)
Warning: This is kind of long (and mostly unedited)… On December 3rd last year, I had the second-worst panic attack of my life. I had just been for a swim, and was driving back home. Although I’d been experiencing some occasional anxiety since a frittata-induced heartburn in October (eggs are no bueno for Kevin), as [...]