“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.” – William Faulkner
You know what I was not meant to have? Control. Self-, others-, situational-, political-, government-, project-, subordinate-. None of it. I am involuntarily exerting control over my words, even as I type them. I used to be able to write freely, flowingly, honestly, carelessly. Not in an “I-don’t-care-about-others” kind of…
16. Thankful for the tenacity to plow my way through respiratory unrest without defaulting to antibiotics or steroids. Pregnancy taught me that I could 4 years…
So, I’m jealous of all the people on Facebook who have been “together” enough to post daily blurbs in November about what they are thankful…
Recently, a book called Shadow Syndromes by Dr. John Ratey, M.D. and Catherine Johnson, Ph.D., was recommended to me, and I started reading it last week. It is…
12/31/2011 The silence surrounding me right now is quite comforting. There is the occasional fireworks moment in the distance, but my $2.99 earbuds are successfully…

I’m Christi, and I have been writing, well, since I learned to write as a little girl. I learned in my 40’s that writing saves lives and sanity, and that is exactly why I am still here.