Michie Smashing Thoughts
Sport Short 3: The Selfish Dive at the Try Line
This is a sport short about a failed dive to score a try, made in a college rugby match years ago. I compare things I learned in that game versus learning in my most recent match as an Albany Knickerbocker this weekend.
Hating Your Body is Easy; Loving it is Hard
This is a piece about my forever changing body and where I am at in my life-long pursuit of pure self love.
Sport Short 2: The Second Annexation of Puerto Rico– UAWRFC Rugby Legends
This is the second short in a series I am writing about those flash moments you get in sports that NEVER leave you. Athletes know that these moments are not and CANNOT be planned. In the decades of sports, I still have these plays, these visions, and these games I can see like it was happening in the present. The second of many is this true tale of two rugby women in their prime completing the best play that college rugby has ever seen, a trick play inspired by a classic movie, The Little Giants.
Why I Play Rugby
This week my rugby coach, Lori “The Ripper” Staples, asked us to answer 2 questions about rugby. Here is my shared response about why I play rugby and what it feels like to play.
Start Over if You Must- Smash’s Summer Running Progress Report 2021
As a special educator, I write progress reports for students quarterly checking in with them about their progress. This system ensures that the students know where they are when it comes to their goals and also know what they need to do to accomplish that goal. In this piece, I have given myself a running progress report for this summer hoping to check in and figure out where I am with my running goal and also what I need to do to get back on track. As teachers, we often know what to do to help our students progress and yet, don’t always for ourselves. In this way, I am using something that has worked with my students, for myself, in this case- the struggling learner.
The Quarantine 50 Yo Yo
This is a piece about how I lost and now gained 50 pounds, a year apart, since this quarantine. I talk about the whys, hows, and ways I plan to make my body healthy again– while loving it right now for what it can do in the present.
You Make Me Better
This is a poem written about my partner and the magic that is when two people so naturally aligned find each other.
Insider’s Guide on Loving Someone that Doesn’t Love You
Written Saturday October 10th during Andrea Gibson’s workshop called Write Your Heart In. This was a poetry prompt asking us to choose something we knew very well. We were prompted to take that thing we know well and make it into an insider’s guide. Here is my Insider’s Guide on Loving Someone that Doesn’t Love […]
Long Distance Things 1: DIY Post Cards
This is the first in a series for all those finding themselves living afar from their lovers. This is a DO IT YOURSELF: POST CARD that will make your partner smile.
Sport Short 1: Unassisted Triple Play
This is my first sport short, my way of reliving some of my best sports memories and talking about what it taught me.
In this piece, I talk about wins and losses in this life and how we must be a champion of each.
I give the story of a win, my unassisted triple play, supported by the coaching of my father. I go on to talk about grief and the loss of my step brother.
In this life, we have big wins and sometimes even larger losses, we must find a way to survive and make the best of this life putting good into the world when we can.
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