My heart is torn betwixt two places And yet I cannot go The path once traveled Lies in wait And beckons me back home But here I find the worlds not there And there the things not here So as I live another day My heart goes to and fro I'll brave a path that winds and bends To distances not taken And find my place in lives now shared In values not yet shaken So onward to this home I lack I stay another day Knowing that when time has come My other place awaits #poems #expatturn

This writing thing is throwing me for a loop. I know. Kinda sucks. I'm a writer. I recently had someone ask me if I feel pressured to "make it" now that I quit my full-time job and define myself as an author. Um, yeah. Totes presh. Not in the good way. But it's more than that. I feel an anxiety that is pulling at me like gravity, and I want to retreat. Curl back up into my shell and let the world spin around me. Because I get nauseated at the mere thought of putting my creati

This summer we had the opportunity to visit Switzerland. O.M.G. Switzerland (said in softest whisper). I was breathless most of the time. I've never seen its equal. As I sat gazing at the sight of Mont Blanc, or trekking up the mountain to Oeschinen Lake, elevation 5,177 feet–don't worry, we took the gondola as far as it would take us before hiking the next 20+ minutes–I wondered about that saying. They sky's the limit. Is it? I believe there's something beyond the sky. Somet