Response to a Recurring Dream

July 9, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

I’m back at the restaurant where I worked throughout university and beyond. There is no organization in staffing, and the customers are smoking at the table by the entrance, and I’m allergic. I try to find someone in charge, but find only cooks smoking in the kitchen. Coming back to work here is obviously a […]

Avoidance Therapy

May 10, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

I just want to sleep. Situational, my therapist calls this type of depression. Saw my family doctor this week, and she confirmed that the skin condition could be cancer. At best, it is a rare condition that will need specialist care. It is both itchy and painful, but there can be no treatment until the […]

The Moment is Now

Evening light casts a hopeful glowA gentle summer breeze harmonizesshadows fascinate, stretching into mystery My breathing, shallow, betrays the moodUncertainty an unforgiving foe –soul whispers a prayer of longing A swarm of winged insects dance where walnut branches part undaunted by ensuing dark My wings, folded in doubt’s wake,weigh heavily on anticipation –a learned habit of […]

Magic (haiku)

Perfection: a note to self

Back to back showings and an Open House Saturday, and I’m falling into the perfectionism trap. Then I found this note I’d written to my younger self: Discard the concept of perfection: choose to embrace vulnerability and imperfection as fertile ground. Taking comfort in my own words.