January 2013
1 post
November 2012
1 post
Lemolo →
I can’t get enough of this album. Great for those quiet, passionate evenings. I’ve been singing into my broomstick.
October 2012
1 post
September 2012
1 post
July 2012
1 post
April 2012
5 posts
“anyone out here who doesn’t drive a Volks is either ostentatious or...”
– http://life.time.com/culture/jack-nicholson-unpublished-photos-1969/#13
Poems for Sale →
How fun would this be?! Now where’s that type writer?
No Doubt of Sunshine →
Waterdeep is one of my favorite bands…musically and lyrically. This one really hits it out of the ball park for me.
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
2 posts
WatchI thought I was taking a picture, then realized I was taking video. The boy thought the dock was moving because of the optical illusion of the moving waves. He’s so funny!
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
Same Floor Neighbors
Here we are, in this concrete, hardyboard
middle-class apartment, neighbors across the hall.
I am here, in this cold, wet state
far from the hot, dripping pine trees
and brown centipede grass.
A transplant, rooting, feeling the chemical
makeup of the soil and wondering
if I’ll make it til spring.
And you, like me and not, a mom
alone, seeing, or not, the young son
selling meth...
November 2011
1 post
"Treasure"...Overused, but the Only Term...
I have experienced of late, a rare moment here and there to pause, fighting the urge to attend to tasks, and revel in the gift of a treasure found. One day it was a chestnut tree found at the very back of a city park, bursting with chestnuts.
The kids and I gathered hand-fulls, lining our pockets (and handkerchiefs) with the shiny nuts. They came from this unassuming, bedraggled tree.
...
October 2011
4 posts
On being in the woods
I have often felt the draw of the woods. The quiet places hidden in the trees, the sound of cars and commerce shielded by greenery. It is what others might call an “itch,” or a craving.
I need to be in the woods.
We moved to an apartment in a suburban area outside of Seattle in June of this year. My three children were accustomed to having the run of the back yard back in Florida....
September 2011
7 posts
WatchRock and roll, baby.
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
