Things You Don’t Have to Be Sorry For

🌓 Have you ever felt silenced? Invisible? Small? That your thoughts and opinions didn’t matter? That what you were feeling was embarrassing? Have you ever started a sentence with, “I’m sorry ...” (to bother you/take up your time/for being emotional/I’ll just be a minute ...?) Who told you your time isn’t as valuable? your thoughts…

Wonderful Magic in Unknown Places

And today, the mortician’s daughter is (finally!) on submission. Writing — never mind publishing — is a long, often difficult journey, mostly endured in solitude. The fear and grief and now languishing of Covid has made it that much more difficult for many people to create, but I do take some solace in remembering how…