Living Life Out Loud...

Many of you probably already know that "LOL" typically stands for "laughing out loud" but here on my blog, it means "living out loud". For many adults being authentic no longer comes naturally. We must work at it. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we have lost the ability to simply LIVE. After dealing with a lot of personal trials, including verbal/emotional abuse and being the caretaker for my father prior to his death, I have come through and not only survived, but am working on thriving. I have maintained a sense of humor & have been resilient. Here I will write about my life and what's going on in my mind. Hence is the life of a writing, child-at-heart, sage-like goddess who refuses to "grow up" if that means being inauthentic.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

From the Interim Editor

From the Interim Editor: I went to my first wacipi ever in Iron Lighting on the Fourth of July. Friends were shocked when I said I'd never been to one. I grew up in Ohio, went to Catholic school for 12 years, went to an...

Not my writing, but my editor's, Fran Carr​. Her first-timers account of attending #wacipi. (Sometimes known as a #powwow) I have been to a few back in my late teens and 20s...it is definitely an experience to behold. Great, great memories and fun times with the friends I attended them with. (Kesi Relyea​, Christina Munsell​, Ali Rowe and Tiffany Miller​) If you ever have an opportunity to attend a wacipi, do it!

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