Updates & Announcements

Hello all! I hope everyone’s having a happy holiday weekend. I’m on vacation too. In fact, I’m not *really* posting this right now. I’m really eating pie(s) and playing games with my family. This blog post is all an illusion. Kinda spooky, huh? (Sorry, I think I’m a little lightheaded from all the sweets.) Anyway,Continue reading “Updates & Announcements”

Empty Bowls, Full Hearts

This past Sunday, I stood in line for over an hour in the sunny November heat (ah, Texas weather, you fickle beast) waiting for a bowl of soup. But, although the soup was quite tasty, it was the bowl, and the reason behind the bowl’s existence, that I was more excited about. If you liveContinue reading “Empty Bowls, Full Hearts”

Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park

Today feels like a good day for a poem. I wrote “Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park” after my first trip to Big Bend in March of 2011. In November of 2013, I was visiting the park for the second time when I received word that my poem had won first place in the Poetry Society of Texas‘Continue reading “Balanced Rock, Big Bend National Park”