Hey there!
I'm Deidre Braley
I'm a poet & essayist, speaker & podcaster, and a freelance writer & editor. I like words, can you tell?
I like to speak & write true words that resonate with real people — you know, the ones who sneak their kids' french fries and have messy cars and wonder if their lives actually matter.
And if you're a writer, small business, or church, I can help you do the same: You cast the vision for your words, and I'll help you catch the right ones.
The Second Cup is all about gracious storytelling. Words matter. So let's elevate them.
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The Shape I Take
a poetry chapbook
From predictions for ominous weather and late-night loving to the tension between new life and certain death, the poems in The Shape I Take are not your typical reflections on motherhood. Rather, they seek to capture the realities of the anticipation, desperation, and trepidation that come along with bringing a baby into the world: milk-drenched sheets and all.
From The Blog
the question of dinosaurs & aliens
But this isn’t really about the ancient terrestrials or the extraterrestrials at all. It’s about the big questions that haunt us in the middle of the night, because we don’t have answers for them and we know it. It’s about the niggling doubts that work their way into the circuits of our mind and force us to look at what we think we knew about God and our reality and ask, “What if it’s not at all like we thought?” And, if that’s the case—where does that leave us?