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the beauty of human truth
This is my daughter, Rachael, a gifted singer-songwriter angel-voiced truth teller living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband Will, boys Henry and Ezra, and dog, Lucy. Every note she composed, every lyric a personal truth, and t...
The Tale of Chicken Little, 2026 edition
The sky is falling, said Chicken Little, who also went by Nervous Nelly, but these days, felt Appropriately Concerned.
Foxy Loxy snorted his cruel snort. “Hoax,” he said. “Besides, do you want Loosey Goosey to beat us?”
“How will that eve...
All Human
After hearing about AI’s imminent existential threat, I am happier than ever to lean fully into trusted humans to re-edit my re-edited self-edit of my trilogy.
Never mind that I thought the third pass was ready to be shopped around. I had...
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what would you do for a klondike bar?
i find myself asking myself these days,
rhetorical question, hook of a jingle,
my pet existential overload musing.
what would you do for a
and tada! i’m back,
holding a plastic sippy cup of apple...
Art History
This is Graydon Parrish’s “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy.”
It’s an oddly sentimental choice, 9/11 depicted as classical allegory, rich with symbolism and the personification of death, chaos, and despair.
I’ve stood in front of the huge...
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I'm a novelist, essayist, poet, and human lady. Mama to six, nana to four. I see significance in random things. It's a problem. Writing helps.
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