I’m a poet and the author of four books, exploring thoughts through both poetry and prose.
Musings with Mookie is a solo podcast where I share reflections, writing practices, and observations on life - some direct, some layered, much like my poetry.
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Free yourself from other people’s responsibilities or their irresponsibility.
Sorry y’all - I’m back. For how long? I don’t know but I am here today.
I have spent a good portion of my life “living the dream” and doing it successfully. I was doing it all - literally, because I was trained to do without exception. I was trained inadvertently to find a solution.
I remember my mother leaving one day, I mean, she left often to be honest. I am a latchkey kid. Well one day she left and it was me, my brother, and my three younger siblings. We were watching tv and I specifically remember we were watching PBS and this show demonstrated how to make a pizza but for kids to do. Well I was hungry and I looked at my brother and said “Let’s make pizza.” My brother immediately chimed in and said you aren’t supposed to use the stove. Well my mother said she would be back - so I guess she wouldn’t know.
I made the pizza — a slice of bread, some ketchup, and a slice of American cheese - it was good for what I needed at the time... it wasn’t exactly as tasty as described on tv. From there I moved up until I got to the noodle debacle - save that for another time.
The thing is, I was learning to do things and come up with solutions before I was taught. Before life had called action on a scene, I had already started act two. Not intentionally, but automatically. Increasingly, and actively, I have learned to be more present and not move into fixing unless I am asked. Or to say no when I don’t want to or don’t have the bandwidth.
What can you let go completely today?
Mookie💜
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4 Oct 2026
Ep56 Musings m/Mookie
A new day… to do more - lol
I don’t need anymore to do really and I am coming to the realization that I do not need more to do. I can be a little busy body.
No I have been a little busy body for a long time. If I wasn’t doing something I would get into something. Learning to sit in peace without expected, or putting those expectations on myself to do more.
It’s not like every move I make is not valid, I just don’t need give every idea validation then movement. I come up with a new idea and then I have new project all the while not finishing other 3.
Now I am learning to not feel that I am not being useful because others are rushing. I have more creative time to relax and organize ideas. To be helpful when asked and not just to feel useful.
It is freeing to move with intention.
Mookie💜
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25 Sept 2026
Ep55 Musing m/Mookie
“… I’m a woman, but first I’m a person. And as a person, you do not outrank me.”
It is now September and I recorded this in August. To be transparent, there were a few musings before this - about five- that had no audio because the mic malfunctioned. I think I had some good musings during that time too. I know how to talk, but I am also quiet.
My musings usually happen during a quiet space of time that I have to myself and with kids, school, building and maintaining pages, a house, and my emotional instability, that space is hard to come by.
Parenting is an active choice that is made every day... it’s not one that I take lightly. I make a concerted effort to put my children’s needs and desires before my own. I made this decision as a child myself - well, an older teen.
We tend to look at the lives of great leaders through a narrow lens. For some, I didn’t even know they had children. Then to find out they weren’t an active presence in their lives either because of their work and because they had created split families... from coast to coast to continent to continent.
Also, some do not inherit the stable home that so many of us take for granted. We may miss on vacationing because maintaining a home is costly, but our great leaders and speakers may only be able to sleep in a friend’s home or depend on hotel rooms as a permanent nomadic lifestyle.
The question I have pondered for myself is what I must give up myself? Right now it is not being a friendly driver and an active social life. What have you given up to be your higher self?
**you going to hear me misspeak in these musings, but this is off the dome. I speak as the thoughts come.
- Mookie💜
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