Urban Habitat

The Second Life of a Poem

Life’s been a slump as of late. Ths feeling of stuckness, of fighting up a hill that never ends when I can’t see the top… where to go from here? It’s unclear sometimes, even though I think I’m better than where I was a month or so ago. I have more projects, more things to do for joy than for some alterior purposeor just for money. Not that money is unimportant, or necessarily bad; it’s just that I want to do things for me, not for someone else’s dream to earn my keep, persay.

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    This book was recommended to me by a coworker a few months back. I bought it, it sat on a shelf, I finally read it – and gosh am I glad I did! It made me smile and break out a highlighter. Below I share a quick synopsis of my thoughts on Lessons from Plants…

  • halloWEEK antics

    Chapter One: Scary Stories My local bookstore puts out a seasonally-specific selection of books every month or so, and they had some fantastic ones for October. Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express // The Demon of Brownsville Road, a true Pittsburgh haunting story // We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by the amazing…

  • Executive Function for Two: Dating Anxious

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  • spooky szn brain dump (and plant updates)

    I had a dream last night about growing lemon balm; I complained that my seeds never sprouted, and the other person in my dream (I don’t remember who it was) told me to put the seeds in dirt in an airtight glass jar and place the jar sitting in water. Not sure I’d take that…

  • my poetry manuscript

    A few years ago I self-published a book of some of my poetry (which you can find a link to on my Projects page). I want to make the full manuscript available here for people to read, because why not? If you want to [monetarily] support me and help me donate money to Malala Fund,…