Taralynn Moore

She sits with me today, heavy on my mind.  Her spirit giving a constant cackle as I struggle to do my work, her work, for the job we created together that I now face alone. I do not know that […]

You Lost Your Mind Today   I watched you lose your mind today I watched it slip away Out of the gleaming light Into the murky gray   I wonder if it’s painful Sitting in the dark If the pounding […]

Dear Holly, Tonight I danced with your daughter.  She was brilliant and shining, her arms high in the air, her feet off the ground.  With the lights and the music pulsing around us, a boy asked for my permission to dance […]

Though I have always written, I have not always been a writer.  I owe that crossover to a friend.  The one that looked me in the eye and told me to do it.  Write that book.  Publish it.  Her words […]

As I tried to explain the importance of today’s events—women uniting around the world—to my daughter’s young and eager ears, I found myself overwhelmed.  Overwhelmed with gratitude for the strong women that raised me and for the strong woman I know […]

The loss of both Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds has come at the end of a tragedy filled 2016.  A year that has left many adrift in mixed feelings of desperate hope and impending defeat.  No one can promise a […]