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Slowly Writing about Urgency
Hello! First, let me say I’ve been writing this post for at least six months. Or: not writing it. Writing it in my head? Processing the idea of writing it? All of the above? Let’s begin with a question–what role does urgency play in your own life? What feels like…
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What I’ve been up to slash come on a writing hike!
Hi friends! Every now and then, I get a grand vision for my website musings here, my “kinda bloggish” blog. I decide I’m gonna start doing X thing every X weeks and that will be WHAT I DO NOW. Then life happens and I don’t do the thing every X…
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Poetry reading tomorrow at Tenn Street Coffee & Books!
Hello! If you’re in the Denver area tomorrow, and feel like some poems, join me at Tenn Street Coffee & Books at 7 PM. Here is a lovely write up they did about the event. Besides sharing some poems from White Lung, I’ll be debuting a new poem called “What…
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Dear 2026… join me on May 9!
Hello friends, I’ve been quiet here, although I’ve been drafting a post about urgency… that I’ve been mulling over for, like, months. I’m sure there’s something to be said about that… In the meantime, though, I’m reading with Brain Dickson at Tenn Street Books on May 9, and we’re inviting…
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I’m going to AWP!
Hi everyone, For the very first time, I’m going to AWP! AWP is an annual conference of a whole bunch of writers. For the decade+ I was trying to publish my book, I avoided it because I felt like being around so many other writers would amplify negative energies that…
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Let’s Process This: me & Chat-GPT examine executive orders and also, we’re still tired (plus, 4 things to try when you’re overwhelmed)
Hi friends! Did you know that when you visit whitehouse.gov, you get a sidebar popup that reads “Welcome to the Golden Age?” Try it! It make take a minute, but the wait is fascinating. I went to whitehouse.gov as I tried to make sense of 2025 in terms of executive…
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Let’s Process This
Hello friends, Here I am popping back up again–I wrote this post last week in late January 2026 and an publishing it now in early February. In January, like many people, I tend to think a lot about what changes I’d like to make in my life, due of course…
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A Time to Give
Merry Christmas! As I wrote about last year, I am a board member for a nonprofit called Jade Kids. Jade Kids is a 501c3 nonprofit run by one of the most important healers in my life, Judi Terrill. I first saw Judi, an acupuncturist, on April 29, 2014, the very same day…
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Loving the End of the Worst Year Ever
Hello friends, I think I’ve posted exactly once since May, which began one of the very worst periods of my life so far (and hopefully, ever, but time will tell!). I won’t share the dirty details here, but I’ll say that 2025 kicked off for real with a panic attack…
Kimberly O'Connor 