Publications
TheSame: "Home Made"
I was more interested in going to the homecoming dance than I was in Brad, the senior who invited me. It was my first year of high school, tenth grade, and Brad was a good-looking trumpet player who sat first chair. I had a perfect view of him from my vantage point in the percussion section where I played bells and chimes. I was still new to the school and not particularly interested in any one guy yet. But at fifteen I was excited about my first high school dance.
Ponder Review: "On Tethered Wings" (page 91-93)
Oddly, I’ve always felt as though I’m perching. With the many moves in my life, a lot of places felt temporary. Now, in this house on the mountain for ten years and counting, I don’t even make the effort to put nails in these hard walls—tricky without cracking the plaster. I just hang a few pictures in the places where others’ artwork and photos made this house their home. Still perching—even on Monte Sano—even at home. Ready to leap across the country, around the world, like before.
About Courtney Hill Gulbro
Courtney Hill Gulbro’s early career as a writer and editor began with the Kwajalein Hourglass, a daily Army-authorized newspaper in the Marshall Islands. She went on to write free-lance and direct public relations projects before transitioning to the field of counseling and counselor education. In addition to her time on Kwajalein she has lived and worked overseas in Germany and Japan, and stateside in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia; Lake Tahoe, Nevada; and Arcata in the redwoods of northern California. She holds doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Sarasota and a master’s in counseling from the University of Maryland. More recently she earned a master’s from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She is a member of the Porch writers’ collective in Nashville, and the Wildacres Writers in North Carolina. Her essays have appeared in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, Ponder Review, Nature Writing, and elsewhere. She is working on a second memoir.