by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Apr 20, 2016 | Creativity, Encouragement, Resistance, Writing
One of my favorite things to do is encourage people. Especially those with long harbored creative dreams. Probably because they are usually the first ones to sell themselves short. My mother was a beautiful poet. I still have one of her journals filled with some of...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Apr 5, 2016 | Encouragement, Writing
The poem below was written back in the day, for my husband (then boyfriend), Paul. Not long out of the military, he was struggling with wanting to make something of himself. To be his own man, on his own terms…whatever that meant. Unfortunately, quite a few people in...
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