I think sometimes that life is harder for us DreamersAnd yet, somehow softer, tooFor when the world knocks us to and fro,Opens the earth beneath our feet to swallow us whole,And brings us kicking and screaming back to this plane,We have still our kites in the airTrailing along with luxurious clouds The world is louder…
The Tipping Point to Connect
What makes people connect? What makes us come together and feel kindred with one another? What marks that tipping point between acquaintances and friends, between lovers and partners, between people you like to spend time with and family? I have mulled these questions over most of my life. I care for my biological family members,…
The Wounded Belle and the Butterfly
People say they want to fall in love the way they do in the movies. They want grand gestures and epic poetry, knockdown dragout fights and passionate lovemaking. We like to pretend only women want this, but it’s men, too. It’s everyone. We’re all taught through observing beautiful, passionate stars on the silver screen that…
Mountain Sunrise
It’s Christmas Eve, 2021, and the sun is peeking out over the blue mountains where our cabin is nestled in the Appalachains. The sunrise magnifies the green of the grass and deepens the shadows of the fog. I havn’t been here for two years, and probably another two years before that. This place has always…
Falling in Paris
I’ve never spent April in Paris (yet), but I did spend a few days there in September once. It’s funny how our dreams of romance and the excitement of falling in love never quite match up with reality. So, too, with my first experience meeting the City of Love. It wasn’t all strolls in the…
My Sudden Hindsight
When I first started my Sudden Sight personal blog on WordPress in 2011, it was because I wanted a place to share my experiences of recovery. If I wanted to take back my life and become a writer, I had to start somewhere. Where better to start than with my own life experiences? My first…
Depth Perception Wins ‘Audience Choice Award: Ensemble’
Depth Perception premiered at the Atlanta Fringe Festival June 7-10, 2018, winning the Audience Choice Award for ensemble show.
CONGRATULATIONS to the amazing cast and crew!
Not My Face: The Seen and Unseen Aftermath of Medical Trauma
Presented at the Critical Juncture 2017: The Role of Art at the [email protected] Program by Alexandra C. Pauley. Originally presented at a 2016 Bleux Stockings Society safe space show in Atlanta for the theme, “Beauty.” Warning: Graphic Images Below I have always been beautiful. Growing up, I was thin even though I ate like a racehorse. I…
Meet the Original Cast
Depth Perception premiered at the Atlanta Fringe Festival June 7-10, 2018, winning the Audience Choice Award for ensemble show. The show was produced by Alex Carter, who wrote and directed the show, and Tenaya Cleveland, who starred as Maxine. The original set was designed and built by Ellaree Yeagley. The mask used in the show was conceptualized and made by…
Atlanta Fringe Festival Welcomes My Sudden Sight Creator Alex Carter’s Production “Depth Perception”
My Sudden Sight creator Alex Carter will be producing her original play, “Depth Perception,” at the Atlanta Fringe Festival June 6-10! Digital painting, used as promotional print, was created by Atlanta-based artist Joyce N. Ryan. Depth Perception A dark comedy about a young woman, Maxine, coming to terms with the rollercoaster of emotions that (literally) haunt her…