Taralynn Moore

It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face, since I’ve written words that move my soul. Others may sway, may swoon at my tepid prose, but I remain resolute in my stillness. It’s no coincidence. Your presence opens the […]

I didn’t know that I wasn’t supposed to . . .   . . . laugh when the world was crying. . . . smile when it all came crashing down. . . . dance away my sorrows. . . […]

When night falls, dreams become reality.  In this new place, where fears are transformed into phobia or fantasy, we are allowed the chance to walk thru circumstance without risk.  Exploring the options allowed through each repetitive scene becomes both our […]

I let him go, again and again.  And he comes back to me.   It’s the only way we work, my sailor husband and I. How do we have a normal relationship?  Spending months apart as he roams the world […]

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 […]