POET | PLAYWRIGHT | TEACHING ARTIST
Midlife
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Cats & Dogs & the Wisdom to Know the Difference
I think it takes courage to swim against the tide as we begin to do about now. When our own mortality comes slowly seeping into our consciousness as a fact of life, as our bones move with less ease and our skin relaxes, and we can admit to ourselves that we really aren’t the person…
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Discovering Home
Yesterday I went to a friend’s theater production downtown. It was an evening of storytelling by seven women, from seven countries. So, I thought about you. Some of these women were war refugees, some economic migrants, and some came for love.
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Idealisation
There would be images of me (taken by God-knows-who) alone on the porch, wrapped in a hand-made blanket, a mug of boiled coffee in hand: the poet looking wistfully over the landscape. There would also be images of candlelight dinners with glinting wine glasses, my lover and all my laughing friends: all on Instagram. ……
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On Planning a Life
The question I had put to myself all those years is what do you want to be? Rather than what are you going to do? In some ways, I am grateful for that. For what spontaneity has added to my life. The unexpected is always an adventure. I think it has made me braver than…
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I’m gonna pass on the Ageism Kool-Aid
I can honestly say I have much less fear and anxiety when it comes to what other people think. (Notice, I did not say “no fear and anxiety”: we all fear the trolls, I think.) Yes, I’m the only mature adult on the slope with her arms out “like an airplane landing” – but that…
