BE BRAVE FRIDAY
carriejonesbooks I’ve been quietly writing poems first thing every morning for a couple of weeks now. I guess, it’s my idea of morning pages, which is a writer thing where you…
be brave Friday
Be Brave Friday–Finding Awe in a Tomato
I tell the story about one of my grandmother’s a lot. She was born in 1896, which means she’d be 127 now if she was still alive, which is kind…
Finding Your Credo
It’s okay to be milquetoast if you want to be When my daughter was little, she was at a preschool and another girl attacked her, knocking her down, roaring like…
If he postures like a gorilla? It’s probably not a good sign
Understanding Emotion Sometimes when my ex-husband was angry and drunk his posture would change. It wasn’t upright with his shoulders back. It wasn’t just that his hands would curl into…
Be Brave Friday-Being Knocked off the Sidewalk and Working on My Assumptions
The two women were walking down the sidewalk toward the library, heading toward me. I knew one of them. Everyone in town knows her. I’d met with her a few…