Moon Penny Musings
Writings from the road to Happy Destiny: A bit of spirituality, humor and peace, with a dose of poetry just for fun.
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A week in boundary setting My goal this school year was to create and keep some boundaries around my personal time, such as ignoring emails after dinner, and keeping clear my one day off each week. I did not last very long, and our resident skunk, which I have only…
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Road to the TCS NYC Marathon: Part 4 (EEEK!)
As of this writing we are 63 (by the time I finish writing we might be at 60!) days away from the NYC Marathon. Sixty-three…
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The Wildness Within
I am eight, climbing a tree in the graveyard next to our house. The bark is rough, yet my hands don’t feel it. I am…
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Finding Joy in Creativity
In memory of Deb Koffman (1966 – 2021) Deb Koffman was a local artist, whose whimsical pieces found a place in her gallery in the…
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Poem of the Day Project
July 24, 2026 A silver-winged dragonfly landed on an apple blossom, delicate legs caressed the pale pink petals. In a brief moment it was gone,…
● About Me
I wrote and published my first blog post on May 26, 2009. I was about to turn 36 and had been accepted to Mount Holyoke College as a non-traditional student, on my way to completing a Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Medieval Studies. I had managed, finally, to know what general direction I was traveling. As a self proclaimed voracious reader I knew that I needed a vocation that would allow me to engage daily with words: reading words, writing words, and hearing words. I also needed to eat, so I navigated my way to a teaching position and I began to fine tune my craft. I love to teach and I love my students, but I also needed to continue to hone my own literary technique, voice, and style. I continued my education in order to delve deeper into literature, making connections, and most definitely, writing. I gained more confidence as a reader as well as a writer of both creative and analytical text. That first blog post in 2009 is short, the writing average, and the topic mundane, but as I continued to learn from other writers I began to understand that to become a better writer I needed to write more. Each time I write and release a poem, a post, or a story, I hone my skills. I invite you along for the ride, for this journey of mine as I attempt to wrangle a wealth of ideas and competing directions into an organized freshly paved path to publication. I might get distracted along the way, but sometimes those detours lead us to amazing views and new friends.
