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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I began the “Poem of the Day Project” on September 26, 2025, and today’s poem marks day 180 of this daily ritual of crafting a poem during my morning journaling routine. Some of the poems make absolutely no sense to me, others have merit, yet it is the ritual of…
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Decorating the Hallway
When one door closes, another door opens, so they say. That in between time, the transition period is often alluded to as the hallway. I…
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Coming Back to the Beginning
I started this blog in May of 2009, and at the point I had let go of a full time job to head back to school.…
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Creating a Spiritual Practice
Creating a spiritual practice is much like painting a masterpiece. You sit down at the canvas and just pick up the brush. Where do you…
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Running Downhill
Uphill takes forever and no matter which direction I run, there always seems to be more up hills than down. Why? I guess because we…
● 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.
