by McKenzie | Mar 25, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
RADIUM GIRL Once the boys were goldfish and all the girls were rings, tossed and bouncing from bowl to bowl. If not for the clink of plastic on glass,we’d never have known the frenzy,how it sorted itself to tinny song. The funhouse mirrors tripped us up, caught...
by McKenzie | Oct 27, 2019 | Reading
Happy Sunday, friends! I hope you’re having a relaxing weekend. Today, we’re going trick-or-treating in a neighborhood nearby with friends, and we’re also planning to go to Chicago’s Botanical Gardens to see their annual 1000 glowing...
by McKenzie | Oct 26, 2019 | Reading
Apple cider, fall leaves & crisp air, jack-o-lanterns a’glow—These are a few of my favorite, spookiest things… Happy Saturday, friends! If you’ve been here for a while, you know how much I love Halloween. And I also love countdowns....
by McKenzie | Oct 25, 2019 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog, Newsletter
Happy Friday, friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. I know in the last couple weeks I’ve been a bit off my game as far as posting regularly. I’ve had good reasons—family stuff, birthdays, travel, illness—but that doesn’t mean...
by McKenzie | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), My Poems, My Writing Challenges
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...
