Tag: writing
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1,000 miles: step 81
What’s Claudia been up to since graduation? Has she been writing? Does she have a job yet? Get all answers in this June update.
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1,000 miles: step 74
Friday morning found me wondering if kids should’ve gone to school. By evening, I started to believe. The East Coast is covered in snow and Jonas just keeps going. Yesterday, I cancelled my in-home students and made the best call. Driving is not an option with the wind and feet of snow. My Honda Civic…
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am I here?
here I am, my eyelids weigh, drag me down. . . the hours the hours the hours I have slept escape me. . . though my soul is voiceless it is restless from all the steps the sole of my feet take to nowhere, over and over. save me from forgetting how to be what…
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Words are not stable
Oh, no, words are not stable. in a fleeing flutter, they can easily pass me by. When they settle, it’s at their own pace. They are happy to run into each other, to intermingle, and still, I try to build with them permanent monuments: to host the history of my memories and visitors to my curiosities… when given a chance.
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1,000 miles: step 60
I actually came across this whiteboard message a week ago, on my way to one of my tutoring sessions. Although today is a slow Friday, it’s a welcome from the days that have filled up this week. Next week, I have yet another job interview, which adds up the grand total to half a dozen…
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poem of womanhood
I have a truth to tell about last month. It was a disaster–you already know April is a cruel month dear-reader. But for a poetry fanatic like me, it was an utmost disaster, with bits of poems sprinkled on random sheets of paper and some words refusing to stick on any page. I won’t even…
Claudia Rojas 