Hannah Bergstrom de Leon

Poetry Again?

Yep! Poetry again. Here’s the deal, I’m going to keep blogging about poetry until I feel like I have adequately explained the power, potency and…

TEN YEARS!!!! Somehow it has been ten years since I took my first silent retreat?!?!? I do not even know how that time has passed…

I’ve been taking some time to reflect and I’ve come to the conclusion; it is time for a fresh start! When Haddi and I began…

Joy Yep, that’s the word… joy. So it happened like this. There I was lying on a lovely swinging bench, listening to the lapping water…

So I’ve been a little quite on the blog front and for that I apologize. I have a million ideas in my head, but alas…

Let’s be clear… Emmy Kegler is my friend. Not an acquaintance. Not a woman I had a few classes with in seminary. Not one of…

I finished A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi in less than 24 hours. I cannot tell you the last time I read a…

So Book War readers I gotta tell you…whew! January was hard. I did get through it… barely…without buying a book, but it was real touch…

Picture this… Me, sitting beside Leonel as we near the series end of Parks and Recreation on Netflix. I know that soon, I will be…

I can no longer hide from myself, I am ready to own this truth…I am a literary snob. Now most likely you all already knew…