T. Thorn Coyle's Blog

On Helping Each Other Through Crisis Sometimes we worry because we want to control the outcome. Sometimes we worry because we care, yet feel helpless to act. In the Tarot deck illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith, the Five of Cups shows a person standing over three spilled cups, head hanging low. Behind the person are […]

The earth is on fire.My heart is on fire.May all beings be well.

On Showing Up in the Midst of Heartbreak “We best rescue each other in daily heartbeats.”— Scherezade Siobhan War. Tornadoes. Rising temperatures. Displaced people. Mass incarceration. Increased poverty. People sleeping on the streets. Another shooting. Ongoing pandemic…And then there is us: Trying to live our lives. Pay our bills. Take care of our families and […]

On Making Connections in a Hurried World This is a meditation on gifts and the web of interaction that keeps us all connected in this stressed and hurried world… We all give to the world, in some way or another. We give time. Thought. Emotional support. Labor. Laughter. Tears. Money. Encouragement. Some of us give […]

The faeries had been visiting the bungalow again. Sprites, to be exact. These small ones crept up the porch with its big wood supports and – somehow – into the house. The big fae beings? They visited no one. Answered only to themselves. He could tell the sprites had been around because the trinkets on […]

and so are some of my friends “…when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I’m never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell […]

An Essay on Failure and Success Writer Dean Wesley Smith has a concept he calls “failing to success.” I have taken this concept to heart, and use it all the time. It helps keep me motivated even during the roughest times. What does failing to success look like? It looks like many things:  Aiming to […]

The bar was packed, thick with conviviality and syrupy song. The drummer boy drummed. The Christmas tree was rocked around. Mommy kissed fake Santa as a shocked kiddo looked on. The night was far from silent. I needed that. Needed not to be left alone with my thoughts, drowning in my own fear and misery. […]

Haunted Witch was supposed to launch in ebook on all platforms on December 14th, with the paperback to follow shortly thereafter. At least… that was the plan. Something went screwy with Amazon, and I have no idea what happened yet. Perhaps the big AWS crash took the book out, or perhaps it was operator error. […]

“How do you deal with the heartbreak?” Lucinda stared into her martini, not daring to look up at his face. Afraid of the answer resting behind his strange, dragon’s eyes. The clink of glasses and cutlery blended with the scents of rich paella and freshly baked bread. Holiday lights twinkled discreetly around the restaurant, and […]