Carie Juettner

Surviving My Morning Walk: A Brush With Nature

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is an “internationally recognized botanic garden dedicated to inspiring the conservation of native plants in natural and designed landscapes” located in Austin, Texas.* In other words, it’s a pretty, outdoor-y, nature-y place where you can take walks, learn about flowers, swing in swings, watch turtles and owls, look atContinue reading “Surviving My Morning Walk: A Brush With Nature”

A Summer of Words

Writing is like exercise, and I am out of shape. Writing is difficult, at least for me. I’m a perfectionist and a procrastinator, who’s easily distracted by new ideas, cute animals outside my window, and chocolate. None of these qualities do a consistent writer make. I’m also a teacher, and during the school year I’mContinue reading “A Summer of Words”

Night Walk

This poem was published in Dreams & Nightmares a year ago this month, and I’d like to share it with you now. Night Walk One night I walked outside to look at the full moon, but there was no moon, only clouds and wind that whispered Go, Go into my ears. So I went. Without phone orContinue reading “Night Walk”