by G. Anthony | Apr 13, 2025 | Family & Fatherhood, Gratitude & Reflection
It’s been two and a half weeks since our daughter arrived. And every single day has felt like both a breeze and a storm. There’s awe in the quiet. The way something so small can rearrange the entire architecture of your life. I hold her, and I’m struck by the fragile...
by G. Anthony | Apr 4, 2025 | Healing, Healing & Personal Growth, Healing & Transformation, Healing Through Writing
Poetry as a Healing Art: As part of my journey, I’ll be presenting a workshop at the Lakefly Writers Conference this May 2nd and 3rd. The poems you’ll encounter in this series are the foundation for the themes we’ll be diving into during the workshop: Poetry as a...
by G. Anthony | Mar 22, 2025 | Family & Fatherhood
There’s a kind of stillness that doesn’t wait for silence. It’s here now, in the motion of our home, in the sound of my son laughing in the next room, in the gentle stretch of my wife’s body preparing to bring our daughter into this world. It’s in me too. The clock...
by G. Anthony | Mar 18, 2025 | Healing, Mental Health
A dear friend called me last night. I was reminded how few people call each other these days. When I answered the phone, somebody different was on the other end. Not my friend. Their PTSD. Repeated nightmares. Months of mental torture, internal warfare. They had...
by G. Anthony | Mar 13, 2025 | Self-Discovery & Healing
We are walking collections of choices we never made. A lifetime of conditioned likes, dislikes, and aversions, all layered on top of us like sediment—until we believe those layers are who we are. But how much of it is truth? And how much of it is ego, whispering its...