Let’s start out this week’s talk story with celebrating Gooseberry Pie Literary Magazine and the awesome Jeff Harvey! I have a little micro in their first anniversary issue filled with all the flash writers you know and love and maybe a few new ones! I hope you check the whole issue out - HERE!

I also wanted to talk a little about fear. Lately, I have been afraid to ride my motorcycle very far and have been having dreams of accidents and dead bodies sprawled across the highway (not mine or my husband’s).

I wonder where this fear is coming from. Maybe it’s everyone’s else’s fears making me anxious? Maybe it’s my age? Maybe it’s perimenopause and my hormones? Maybe it’s the world we live in?

Every day I make myself get on my motorcycle and ride through the fear. and honestly, it makes me mad that I have this fear at all.

I dreamed of the freedom having any kind of transportation, and there are moments when I can smell the wood fire from a house I drive past, or like last night, I saw the sliver of the moon in the sky, and these are beautiful moments and I try very hard to hang on to those and remind myself of them when I am not riding.

I need to remember that I have literally been riding my motorcycle for 2 months and I need to stop being so hard on myself (seems to be my thing in riding as in writing lolz).

Hope you all love the crazy insight into my crazy… Sending light, love and creativity!