writing
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After
Lo and behold, it has been 9 months since I last wrote anything for my blog, to no one’s surprise, I am sure. 2024 was a blur with many good things (In January alone, I got engaged and released a new poetry book), but the end of the year was… stressful. In the span of… Continue reading
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Planting Love Letters
To my last love – there was a before. When in the shallow of the forest I dreamed of emerald and jade landing upon my tongue as it hungered for the canopy above, the taste of endurance. Craving, this shelter of olive survival. My hands were covered in honeydew as they reached for the tether… Continue reading
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The World Goes Down Slow
Well, I finally did the thing and completed the project that I started sometime in 2020 – I wrote a book and it will be released in two weeks on January 24th! I think I’m a bit in disbelief that this is even happening because while I’ve been writing since I was a very young… Continue reading
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A Room For My Halo
I have been slowly digging back into my current work-in-progress — a poetry collection that, I think, will have a theme that is representative of the past few years of my life. There have been many hard moments in those years. I isolated myself in the bottom of a deep well for quite a long… Continue reading
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Things I’m Trying to Come to Terms With
My brain is both my brain and not my brain, / at once wild and feral, / at once subdued and desperate. / The names I have answered to: / crazy, emotional, unpredictable and predictable alike, / too insert-verb-here. Acceptance / of every perspective and perception / but my own. / All the guilty pleasures… Continue reading
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Chaos & Words
I’ve started and trashed a number of projects over the last six months, signs of increasing mania, to be sure, but also as distraction. I kept telling myself that each project was going to be my return to myself, my triumphant return to writing after a terribly long and broken hiatus. My chapbook was published… Continue reading
About Me
Hi, I’m Ash!
I’m a 30-something writer living on a 3400-acre bird sanctuary in South Carolina with my forester husband and two stepchildren. I earned an English degree in 2010 and remain an obsessive bibliophile who also enjoys being outdoors, adventuring, cuddling with my dogs (& cat!), and sipping on a hefty glass of wine. This lil space of the internet is one I hope to use in my journey to cultivate more creativity and general wordsmithing in my life. Welcome!