Kimmy Schmidt, The Bunker and How What Is Wrong With You Can Help Make It Right

Here’s a headscratcher. Sooner or later, it dawns on you that your greatest assets are also your most vulnerable liabilities. It is just true. And one of mine is kind of a superpower with built-in Kryptonite. I am the Great Pretender. On my second re-watch of Kimmy Schmidt, I am struck once again by my […]

Abduction Survivor Michelle Knight Forgives Ariel Castro

Such a powerful act.

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 27

Lesson

30 Days — Celebrating National Poetry Month — April 21

Small Hand   his act a small hand closing a big door locking it   sobbing out for comfort  while refusing it   tears falling bruising her cheek fierce like a mountain lion she threw all the weight of every lock that rested rusty buckling the door   his terror becoming her own   she […]

Learning Is Failure

My momma told me when I was about twenty, that I really needed to intentionally fail something; a class, a project, a role. She worried that I was so merciless to myself pursuing perfection, that I was more fragile than I appeared. She was right of course. Although it took me another ten years to […]

Long Past The Ring (living beyond trauma)

This poem was written in 2008. I’ve shared this in earlier posts, but here is the foundation — I am a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual abuse as a child and sexual assault as an adult. At 17, my most fervent goal was to break the cycle of violence that had shaped me. I […]

The Magdalene Sisters — Full Film

Another great shame of the Catholic Church and the complicity of the Irish government. From the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/world/europe/seeking-redress-in-ireland-over-magdalene-laundry.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0