What Crosses My Mind

  • Wrapping My Head Around It All

    Captured in the moment are the anxious. Trying in vain to overcome a peril, A society out of control, no longer together. Everything we believe is confusion. If when we wake we wrap ourselves in The daily news, we will struggle. How difficult it can be to understand The weight, an indecisive leadership. Every morning…

  • I’m Serious

    “I love the smell of deportations in the morning …” Is this something a president says? The POTUS? How embarrassing it is to be a citizen of a country that is being run by a small minded backyard moron. Who can actually look at that statement and not feel a fear of helplessness for this…

  • Annunciation Church

    A cold couple of weeks, Feels like a day or two ago, So haunting in our lives, Such a horrid mistake of evil, The children lost their lives, Can’t wrap our head around the pain. Prayer and helplessness interact. Its pall is achingly familiar, Heart and soul in a reveal, We cannot deny, we are…

  • Getting Personal

    In my writing I’ve always been knowingly cautious. There are certain things about my life I am not proud of and just hinting upon a few of those skeletons leaves me a little nervous. The fact is though, I do have to live my life, rather than going stir crazy. I think in my long…

  • Sunday, August 31st, 2025

    I can get hit hard, and it comes out of nowhere but gradually takes over my frame of mind. I’m out on the deck with my dog and with her loyalty, sometimes that keeps me going. I’d hate to abandon her. We slept in today, and it felt like it was needed. I went to…

  • I don’t have a title …

    I just got out of bed an hour ago. Keep in mind, sleeping and being in bed are oft times two different meanings for me. I wake up in the morning to let my dog out, and then feed her, and we go back to bed together. I sometimes feel guilty about it, but the…

  • Living With The Pain I Will Never Endure

    It’s been a day now, and I am trying to wrap my head around the terrible events of yesterday at Annunciation School in Minneapolis. I’m not sure how to think except to feel the devastation that the students who went through this hell will have to live with going forward. I’ll never be able to…

  • These Are Real Moments

    I’m walking around with concerns today. I don’t always like my thinking, I’m easily bothered by some of my hurdles. To be clear, I can spend a lot of time being deep in my head. I know the persona behind that habit, however I spend my every day trying to be aware of its dynamic…

  • Riding A Low

    (A disclaimer, my writing is exploring my moods. I am stable, just brainstorming.) When I was a kid, my mother struggled with diabetes. She didn’t struggle as much as it just changed her lifestyle in dramatic ways. Rather than just simply living life, she had to concentrate on how she maintained a lifestyle that would…

  • Exploring Skeletons

    My day has been spent exploring my past. I realized something this morning that is out of my control. I can only make my own adjustments in my world, this small world where I keep myself safe from outside influences. So you ask what I mean by such a statement? I feel like I have…