My first project on the laser cutter at Claremont MakerSpace was a success! It's a simple game of memory with my grandsons' favorite characters engraved on wooden tiles.
This is something I wrote during a bout of insomnia. I was lying in bed thinking about the reasons I often don't write what I feel like writing. These thoughts emerged.
In her quest to overthrow oppression, break glass ceilings, and gain equality in a male-dominated world, woman should take care not to emulate the most depraved characteristics that allowed her captor to reign in the first place.
Otherwise, I Am
God is
who reveals us
unto ourselves -
not otherwise.
Fools, we
venture: Here am I!
Til the heavens
insist otherwise.
Rebels, we
writhe indignantly
This be I!
No otherwise!
There's a larger story - the one still locked behind prison bars, both figuratively and literally. I want to find that kind of audacity - the audacity to tell my story.