by McKenzie | Oct 4, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges
Happy Friday, friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! Compared to last week, this week has absolutely flown by. Cadence turned 5 on Thursday (I still can’t believe it—FIVE?!), and earlier this week, we took her out for a family birthday dinner...
by McKenzie | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, My Poems
IN NATURE My daughter calls the outdoors home & needs no reason to enter. Her skin, the brush. Her voice & birdsong. Her running speed & the air through the field. They are the same. Sometimes, she blends in so well, I cannot see her. The brownest strands...
by McKenzie | Sep 27, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Happy Friday night, friends! This one is coming in LATE, but hopefully some of you night owls are out there reading with me (getting LIT-erary on Friday night, right?). It’s been a long week, and I’m exhausted. You might call this the perfect opportunity...
by McKenzie | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Thursday, friends! I hope you’re having a wonderful week. I know I already shared some news in the Potterverse this week, but now I have some news about a writer whose inspiration is as old as time for some young writers—including...
by McKenzie | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, My Poems
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”—Hamlet A SLEEPING OCTOPUS CHANGES COLOR WHILE DREAMING I can see it up there, high in the corner like a spider hosting its web....
