i turned a year older yesterday
and for the first time I didn’t feel sad.
I felt happy and content,
as if something in my life
finally made sense,
from the relationships I made
to the ones I lost
even those that were never meant to stay.
is that why for the first time
in a very long time
i only have good things to say
Tag: audio
In His Study: A Short Story (Audio)
I wrote In His Study six years ago in response to a writing prompt about a person’s character based on items in his desk drawer. While it didn’t really follow the prompt to the letter, I loved writing it and watching each character unfold on the page.
In His Study features one of my all-time favorite couples Luna and Devlin whose story I will go back to this year.
Until then, here’s a peek into their new life in London. I hope you like it!
a simple wish
it’s christmas eve and i hope you find yourself
surrounded with love, friends near and far, and good cheer
for although this year might not be like any other
we’ve experienced before, my hope is that love never changes,
that friendships continue to exist and strengthen
even through a layer of digital screens and beautifying filters,
and even with all the data bouncing between us,
there is still that thread of all things true –
friendship, lovingkindness, and trust
and know always that i am thankful for you

little journeys
little journeys here and there
that’s where your love has taken me
secrets long hidden now exposed
revealing little truths I didn’t see
that i’ll always be beautiful in your eyes
and maybe one day i’ll see it in mine
until then i’ll hear you whisper the words in my ear
till each discovery will ring true in time
It’ll Have To Be…Me
Your blog is about to be recorded into an audiobook. If you could choose anyone — from your grandma to Samuel L. Jackson — to narrate your posts, who would it be?
I can’t pick my grandmother to narrate this blog because she’s dead –
dead now for quite a few years
and even if she were alive, she’d kill me because
I’ve kinda incriminated her in a few blog posts.
And if there’s anything you do not do with my grandmother,
it’s to incriminate her –
for anything.
And I can’t really pick Samuel L. Jackson either because, well –
he’s Samuel L. Jackson,
and I doubt he could do the whining that I normally do on this blog
as well as I can.
So it might as well be me –
for no one does MorrighansMuse as well as, well –
MorrighansMuse.
And that’s me.
So you’ll just have to make do with me then,
won’t you?
Open Mic
What do you find more unbearable: watching a video of yourself, or listening to a recording of your voice? Why?
I’ve got a face for radio, that’s what someone once said to me once, and it’s stuck ever since. For how can you forget something like that? My friends talked me into applying for Cathay Pacific one time, only because they were, and I was going with them to the first interview – which wasn’t really an interview because they were looking for girls (we were all 17 then) who were either tall and beautiful (a plus if you were both) – of which I was neither. So while they made it to the second round, where this time you actually got to talk to someone, I was dismissed with just a glance from head to foot for I had neither the height they required, nor the beauty they wanted to walk the aisles of their planes.
But what I did have, and still do to an extent, is my voice. I’m not a singer, and I can’t hold a tune. But I have a voice that can give you the news, tell you a story, or just narrate something. I first realized I had a voice someone actually wanted to hear when the local hip radio station hired me to do the news for them. Sometimes I did commercials, which paid more.
These days, my voice is limited to family, my clients and my students. Most of all, to my little boy. I love it when he tells me, read me this book, mama. And I tell him stories about Thomas the tank engine, and his friends, or of Sam I am and how he doesn’t green eggs and ham. Or just go chika chika boom boom just because it sounds so funny.
Sometimes I wonder if he thinks me beautiful, but really I know it doesn’t matter. I’d like him to remember my voice and about how my voice can tell show him just how much I love him, cherish him, wish I could be with him forever and watch over him. My looks are fading, and so is my voice, growing lower with each passing year. But till the end of my days, as long as I’m able, I’ll always be there to tell him the stories he wants to hear – even of a creature named Sam, and about how he doesn’t like green eggs and ham.