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On crying

But let’s get back to crying and the mother of all systems, the nervous system. Wanna know why you’re so goddamn puffy? Why your face feels bruised the next day? Why your eyelids look like water beds begging to be punctured? That is your autonomic nervous system.

anxiety

What’s the use of a title?

I’ll let you both rest now, as an earth-walker I’m gonna stick to confiding in my cat and admiring children and learning to let go and have faith. It suits me better.

Fiction

(Dog Days of) Summer Reading List

Happy first day of autumn!!! Summer 2022’s reading list is late because I am a mom, a busy woman, and yes, a procrastinator. You can call it your Fall Reading List if you prefer. Favorite books I read this summer I did get to rev up the reading a little this summer (compared with my…

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About Wax Poetic Exquisite Corpse (WPEC)

Wax poetic and philosophical with me as we wonder through (extra)ordinary things, what it’s like to be human being human, perception perplexion, culture/generational/personality/ queer studies, the South, what’s streaming, mental health, cats, and explorations of the natural world & inner worlds, all with a brine of sardonic humor and a dash of 90s nostalgia.

I’m Lorna — writer, mother, artist, teacher, champion of the underdog, explorer of the underground, and friend to the grieving.

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