by Michelle Tocher | Sep 25, 2021
It’s amazing how long a picture from a fairy tale can stay with you. For years, I have had a picture in the back of my mind. A princess has been turned into a withering old woman with balding red hair and grey wrinkled skin. She’s stuck in a dusty garret in a castle...
by Michelle Tocher | Aug 29, 2021
I know this woman. She’s a story keeper. Her hair has gone white now, but right away you would notice the snapping light in her eyes. Her skin is crinkled and grey, and her hands are covered in spots. The joints are knobby and arthritic, but she still writes. She’s...
by Michelle Tocher | Jul 10, 2021
The fairy tale has been called “the land of the soul.” It’s a terrain we can enter. We can gaze into wells, wander through forests and castles, swim in lakes, and climb glass mountains. We can dive deeply with the mermaids or soar to the heavens on...
by Michelle Tocher | Apr 20, 2021
“Stillness Rising” is a meditative song that takes us into a quiet place to consider what we might hear from the Earth with the rising of stillness. Stillness Rising by Michelle Tocher...
by Michelle Tocher | Mar 20, 2021
Pity the tight, constrained, over-edited lines living their conventional lives lined up in perfect order little scouts, doing what they’re told unable to speak for themselves… Original Thoughts Oh, do you mind? May I break through the lines to ask a few...
