Wanting more

On Friday I took an airplane down to NJ to meet up with DH and the Bean who’d gone on ahead (the prospect of a 7 hour car ride with toddler suddenly overwhelming after a long week of six year olds.) The plane took off through a partial cloudcover just after sunset, and as we [...]

Self portrait challenge: Elements (Water)

Sun high on the meridian, humidity making my hair curl and the cat nap, a sprawling stripe of fur on the windowsill. Reason enough to head down to the local hardware store for a blue plastic kiddy pool. Cold water splashing on our sun-hot skin. A perfect afternoon Tweet

Morning Poem # 6

All night the cat slept curled on the chair opposite the bed, content to hear the heartbeats of her humans lost in slumber. Now she wakes and stretches a beautiful apostrophe of feline ease, becoming a comma, then an M before she struts away. Tweet

What it's like

This morning, all I could muster after a too-busy weekend with houseguests and rainstorms were these few lines written in dark ink, the words running together as water dripped from my hair. I throw myself into the face of the day waiting like an expectant martyr to be handed alms or be run over. I’m [...]

Learning about showing up

A week of waking up, stumbling to the shower, making my way to the coffee pot and out the door just as the pale fog is lifting. I drive along the dirt road, the gravel slick with mud from the evening rain, and watch each how the leaves are turning. Now, at the end of [...]