Childless by Design

I wrote this back in 2016. I was finishing my MA program and had to write a personal essay. I never ended up with children and as I am now in the late stages of perimenopause, it’s unlikely at best that I would ever be able to. But before I digress… The first time I […]

Quiet.

It’s quiet, as if noise became overwhelmed with being heard and buried itself in a secret closet. Safe from human ears weighing down upon it. Avoiding the disappointment of becoming a misheard word. Apprehensive of the expectation of what it’s supposed to be. So noise softly runs away to a place where nothing hears so […]