POETRY

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THESE THINGS I CARRY

A journey through postpartum depression.

The skies darkened and I was catapulted to an island where my my only breath stole my capacity to live. These Things I Carry is a poetic journey through a harrowing time in my life as a new mom and the tidal waves that followed forever changing my identity, my marriage and my sanity.

ONE MISSING

The waves of grief.

My last phone call with my father was from my mother. On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, my father suffered a Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA), and my mother phoned me asking why he didn’t know his own address. That was the last time I spoke to him. What followed was a week filled with unimaginable grief that forever changed my vision of my father, death and my love.

SIDE EFFECTS

There is no escape. What you run from, will eventually catch up.

Mid-life is fraught with warnings about our health, our well-being and souls. What we do with those warnings and the paths that take us to dark unknowns, determine how we evolve. Taking a deep look into the complexity of the past to determine what to keep, what to let go, and what to re-learn.

YOU MOTHER

Lyrics to the musical script YOU MOTHER.

A woman navigates her way through motherhood, the board of education and her identity all in rhymes.