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26Aug201626Aug2016

Does God Care about Our Happiness? A Book Review of The Happiness Dare by Jennifer Dukes Lee

Erica Hale Book Reviews, Faith, Uncategorized, Writing #TheHappinessDare, book reviews, depression, faith, Jennifer Dukes Lee 2 Comments

I have to confess: I have always been a bit of a happiness skeptic. Sure, I know that God intends us to have deep and abiding joy. But somehow the term “happy” seemed to be joy’s cheaper, less durable knock-off. In addition to this, there have been plenty of times in my life that the joy […]

05May201505May2015

Memories of the Philippines (a poem)

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poem about the Philippines, poetry, writing, ylang ylang 0 Comment

This poem comes from a conversation that I had tonight with dear friends, she is from Iceland and he’s from the Philippines. Listening to memories of a childhood spent picking mangoes and swimming in the warm sea was poetry in and of itself. Memories of what grew in Iceland and Montana were remarkably similar and […]

01Apr2015

Chicken

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing chicken poems, poetry, TS poetry, tweetspeak poetry 0 Comment

Chicken “are you chicken,” he taunted. squint-eyed and red cheeked, with all those freckles splashed across his pug nose i look from his leering grin to my yellow flip-flop, bobbing in the pool like a duck in azure water just beyond my reach. do I stretch out to retrieve it, risk the shove i know […]

01Oct201403Oct2014

Flash Fiction: On the Dock

Erica Hale Fiction, Writing fiction, flash fiction, writing, writing prompt 2 Comments

This dock’s been in my family for a lotta years. A lot more years, I reckon, than most’ve the families who own cabins here on the lake now. You can see who’s old and who’s new by the way the outsides of the cabins look…old families, our cabins look like cabins. The new ones, […]

04Nov201329Jul2014

On Autumn (the dying of the year)

Erica Hale Poetry faith, grace, grief 0 Comment

There is beauty everywhere, in unexpected places, yes even in the spaces where it seems least likely of all. All around me, the leaves are falling. This is a season of dying, of beautiful dying: the colors burn from every tree, they fly like sparks through brisk air scented with woodsmoke. It is beautiful, all […]

12Jul201329Jul2014

Rubicon

Erica Hale Poetry poetry 0 Comment

Rubicon I have worn out my soles pacing this pebbled shore eyes grown weary watching the distant other I have the courage, I think to cross the water cast my paper boats adrift set them afire, watch them blaze down the river like burning stars against a watery blue sky. all that holds me here […]

02Jun201329Jul2014

In the balance

Erica Hale Poetry poetry 5 Comments

i want to lay myself down where earth meets sky and there, being neither one nor the other rest in the balance

02Dec201218Mar2015

Word Candy….

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

When did it become a foolish thing to love wholly, submit to abandon embrace the risk of passion? Who taught us to give, instead a calculated sort of love measured out in teaspoons rationed by fear? Despite convention, I wish for you the blessing of a broken heart the grace to experience the beautiful, broken […]

01Nov201218Mar2015

What Dreams….(word candy)

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

What dreams still wait behind closed doors knocking wearily longing to be heard over the din of now? Playing with Word Candy today….try your own at www.wordcandy.me

12Oct201218Mar2015

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

seeds take them in your hand spilling over through trembling fingers they pour sliding, one over another smooth brown seed coats flow broadcast them wide sweeping out let them fly through open hands released, a gift cotyledon-encased embryos sow wait for them now taking root in rich soil while your hands, empty fold and […]