April 2018 – Seashell Nell

I HIT UP OMAHA

I have this thing where I just gotta SEE THE WORLD, you know?? So, a few weeks ago, I messaged my sister, now-living-in-Omaha, all, “Hey, do you ever take visitors?” and, wouldn’t you know it, sometimes SHE DOES, and a plane ticket later and I was on my flight to Omaha. Came, saw, conquered. FavoriteContinueContinue reading “I HIT UP OMAHA”

My newest lino

I have several ideas for linoblock cuts. One I’ve already started, and it’s in my room. It’s the largest one I’ve ever done and I started it, got a little scared, and stopped. I knew I wanted to make a different one, too, simpler, and I purchased the block for the simpler one. That, too,ContinueContinue reading “My newest lino”

The problem is that…I want to do everything

….and I want to do more than is even possible. I’m writing a blog post right now. BUT I WANT TO WRITE A PLAY! I went to an aerial class tonight. BUT I WANT TO GO TO AN ACRO CLASS AND A DUO-AERIAL CLASS! I carved a linoblock last week. I HAVE FOUR MORE IDEASContinueContinue reading “The problem is that…I want to do everything”

On our history

An Easter poem The lie of the Garden With apple and the snake Was that God didn’t really love us, And we listened, with an ache An ache that tore us from God As in sorrow we left. (Though God, with heart-wide-rendered Gave us second-chance, through death). The lie of the sacrifice Of Abraham andContinueContinue reading “On our history”

I didn’t expect it to look like this

On the eve of my thirty-first birthday, I sat around the kitchen table my parents bought early in their marriage, and I sat there with two other women as we hashed out, after a prayer to the Holy Spirit, a conference in the late fall for men and women addicted to pornography, for men andContinueContinue reading “I didn’t expect it to look like this”