It seems as if we’ve been in Advent waiting all this long, dark year. Isn’t the best time to light a candle when the darkness is deep? When I made a New Year’s resolution to keep a gratitude journal, I didn’t know I was strengthening myself to sing “Joy to the World” in a timeContinue reading “The Joy of Gratitude”
Author Archives: margaleawarner
This is My Brave — Presentation
Margalea Warner shares her piece “On Becoming the Helen Keller of Schizophrenia” at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City. (Video by This is My Brave, Inc. posted to YouTube 31 Oct 2018) [View on YouTube]
“She is Still Red”
My mom was red.She had pale skin, wore red lipstick.I have a snapshot of her wearing a red hooded coatIn the snow.She smoked Camel cigarettesLit them with a flash of red fire.I remember the red smellWhen she would smoke after supperand she would tell me storiesabout when she was littleand her aunts sent her toContinue reading ““She is Still Red””