Category: writing
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Sweet Dreams are Made of You
When sweet dreams of ice cream scoopsSlide from sentimental to erotic andMy feelings glide and rippleback through time and spaceTo you, a you I never really knewBut for a shimmer of a connectionA persistence of a synaptic threadThat should have withered long agoBut there it isA sparkFrom a forgotten memoryA sparkFrom a moment of regretA…
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Find Your Inner Sprout
I wrote a guest post about “Theo and Sprout” for a Young Adult book site. I thought you might enjoy it. You ever think of that person inside you? You know the one. The one you wish people knew better. The one that is hard to let out. The one that your afraid to let…
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The Shadow Knows
When you inadvertently use Jungian shadow work to create one of your main characters, you begin to understand why writing the first daft of each chapter was exhausting. That’s what happened in Theo and Sprout. Sprout, basically Theo’s Anima, came to life from deep inside me. which is not surprising since the concept of her…
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Just a Chair
It’s just a chair. When you sit in it you can’t tell what it looks like. It’s looks don’t determine how it feels to sit there. It’s mostly pretty when you’re not sitting in it. You can smile at it and nod at it, and think that’s nice. Strange how the chair has two distinct…
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Being Small – Not Always Easy
Sometimes being small is hard, especially in the beginning when your ego is still proud and swimming in a world where ego is often everything. Everything is a competition. Everything is measured against everything else. Everything is ranked and when you are small you are often found wanting. Measured and found wanting because you are…
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Theo and Sprout is Live
My new book, “Theo and Sprout” was released yesterday. How exciting. Thanks to everyone who helped out. Also thanks to anyone reading this at all. Now I have to figure out how to market a gender bending, Jungian, young adult, imaginary friend coming of age story. Thinking I’ll need some luck with that. At least…
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Being Small – Not a Sheep
I’m small. I’m not a sheep. I don’t need an alpha dog to herd me around. And yet the world still can’t figure that out. When I was in school certain fellow students thought they needed to protect me, shield me from bullies or just assholes. They were well intended. But I didn’t want protection.…
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Being Small – Perpetual Child
Being small, whether physically, psychologically, personality-wise, is like being a child. Remember when you were a child, so many things appeared large and overwhelming. Adults, nature, furniture. A stool of a chair or a table seemed impossibly tall and out of reach. But you wanted to be on the stool or sitting at the table…
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Being Small – Spaces
When you’re small you can fit into small spaces. I know when I was young this was a great advantage when playing hide and seek. I was good at hide and seek not because I was clever but because I was small and could hide. I don’t know that I was so good at seeking.…
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Theo and Sprout: Jungian Twist
While I didn’t begin writing Theo and Sprout as a coming of age story, I definitely began writing with Jungian concepts in mind. Granted, I realize now that probably wasn’t the best theme from a marketing standpoint. But I give myself some slack here since it was clear from the beginning the story and the…
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