Tiara Me Sue

Mik Everett nailed it. She wrote a blog about falling in love with a writer and what happens when a writer falls in love with you.  (Check Snopes. This was not Tupac, Drake or Mustafa The Poet.) What a person who falls in love with a writer has to put up with is funny to me, especially knowing my own idiosyncrasies and what I'm capable of. When we writers fall in love with you, you have to put up with even more from us, because we strive to be creative in showing our love and we try just as hard to be creative when we are not (I'm almost sorry for that part). It isn't just about romantic love relationships, though. It happens in love, friendship, and every variation of connection in between. When you affect us in any way, you put the metaphorical ink in the pen. We each touch the lives of everyone around us. Whether we know it or not, we all leave a kind of residual fingerprint behind on everyone we come in contact with. The contact could have been as brief a...

Learning to walk is the greatest life metaphor. Stand up, take baby steps, practice, fall down, get back up again, go, run. We have created and preached so many different variations of this metaphor - and the only time we actually meant it to its fullest definition was when we physically taught our children to walk. Teaching our children to walk is the only thing we have actually taught them directly and purely – separate from our beliefs and prejudices, with actual honest support and enthusiasm. It is also the only time we do not judge them for being children. Let’s relive the experience: The baby that has been lying down since the beginning of its life, dependent on others for physical support and getting from here to there, is now attempting to do these actions on his own. She begins to consciously and deliberately roll over, with each new movement showing her what she is beginning to have control over. His newly discovered arm strength allows him to push his body upward from t...