How is it possible for a six-letter word to carry such weight? Maybe it’s been there all along, maybe I’ve just never noticed it before. Never before have I felt the heaviness of this word. Each letter’s weight amplified under the pressure of expectations to be productive during this lull in normal life. Pressure to […]

The numbers around my clock remain one through twelve yet the pause between each tick seems to last far longer than a second. As if someone pushed space between the tiny slash marks forcing the second hand to travel twice as far and at a pace the tortoise could set. There are still 24 hours […]

This quarantined space has become a mirror-filled cave that invites facial cringing as my glance catches the untoward curves of my not-so-pleasant heart features.  But it has also become a cocoon of personal growth and transformation.  One where my uncomfortable pieces have space to be seen and held. Where the time needed, to mull these […]