Christy Munson
Bio
Happy work in progress. What I get right: Wife, sister, aunt, friend, music lover, maker, traveler, perpetual learner. I choose love, laughter, generosity, inclusivity, and kindness.
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Stories (32)
Did She Go
I saw her on the hillside Her eyes cast toward the lake below And there she cried I know not why Then walking did she go
Christy MunsonPublished 2 months ago in Poets
Creating: My Bliss
This inspired life I create what I love and love what I create. Friends, family, colleagues, and strangers alike compliment me on being prolific. Who knows whether being prolific is what makes me happy, or if being happy is what makes me prolific? Either way, my maker's life is my bliss.
Christy MunsonPublished 7 months ago in MotivationAdrift
The warmth, the gentle probing of his hands against the small of my back, the caress of his fingertips painting swirls and lazy eights along my fluttering legs, slowly evaporates as sunlight arrests my pupils. Dozing, happily, I smell his life in our billowy sheets: toast and coffee splashed with predawn rain clinging to his torso after a ten-mile jaunt topped off with freshly spearminted breath for rounds of musky, hot, so-slow morning sex fluffed in feathery down. I am comforted. Feeling him with me, in me, part of me. Effortless. Careless as the ocean. Deep as slumber. He laughs, drinking me in, kissing my freckled gams, nuzzling my toes, making me delirious about the choices I've made. For him. His whisper warms my ear, "Wake up. Wake up, Love. You're drowning. Wake up!"
Christy MunsonPublished 9 months ago in WanderI Can Be A Damn Dummy
I'm sitting on my sofa. I go to stand up. Nope. I've stood up a zillion times before. I mean, come on. I've got muscle memory. A lifetime of perfecting the graceful art of lifting my torso. But no. I fall. This is dead weight me. There I go, crashing into the unsuspecting floor.
Christy MunsonPublished 9 months ago in ConfessionsJenny
I pretend to French braid your hair as we giggle about girl stuff and sip fountain lemonade Your smile is beautiful, the last of your baby teeth sold to the Tooth Faerie for a song
Christy MunsonPublished 9 months ago in PoetsThe Pairing
Opaque grains of thin dry sand escape his boot. It streams from the seams of his kakis, too, scattering. Collecting in piles, it forms a patchwork floor, all dirt and silica and exoskeletons.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in FuturismSacred Reserve
Death greets me empty handed. No choir of angels. No When the Saints Go Marching In. No glass of wine. No smart phone. Not so much as a black leather scratch pad pared down to a couple lousy sheets of coffee-stained paper and a cheap blue ballpoint pen.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in HumansThe Courtship of Ollie's Mother
Sticky clumps of Play-Doh smack the floor all bug-splat smushy. It’s funny, and it's fun. Makes Ollie chuckle. What's keeping Marcella? Josephine's fingers tap her thighs.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in JournalMother Mine
He took your children from you. Left three gaping holes. Three distinct shapes. The first, slender and tall for her age, and sweetly shy.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in Families
My So-Called Life Tells Us What It Means That This Is Us
A lot of shows resonate with me, but one series reverberated more profoundly than the rest: My So-Called Life. One instance in particular gets me where I live. It's a simple moment really, when Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes, and Rayanne Graff, played by A. J. Langer, exchange shoes. (Happens during "Pilot," and is highlighted during the opening credits.)
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in FamiliesIf Dexter, Then Orphan Black
I want my shows to walk the edge. Give me psychological thrillers: Villainous, intelligent, mysterious, murderous, deliciously deviant mind-benders.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in CriminalTo Do Lists, Quad Charts, and Calendars
In case you live by lists, this article challenges you to go a little deeper. I'm applying my own ideas to the concept introduced by Dr. Stephen R. Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Christy MunsonPublished 10 months ago in Motivation
