A morning poem

Like a cold draft from the crack in the lintel the day of the killing keeps creeping back in; making my heart beat faster, unbidden. All the things I tried to avoid by covering my eyes at the movie theater again and again rush up now, in the quiet moments when I’m there in the [...]

1st snow

It snowed this weekend. The first flakes started to fall in long slanting streaks just as evening tucked the valley in. We were inside with a fire going, hanging pictures (finally) on our walls, listening to a Mozart symphony. The next morning, the world was white and golden: a patchwork of the last bright leaves [...]

Because I always root for the underdog

I’m so happy Jeffery won on Project Runway! (My one tv watching obsession is hereby revealed.) I loved his couture dress, and that green striped dress with the exquisite detail. I could ever get up the guts to really let my hair down and dress my inner wild self, I’d wear his clothes. (Stop gasping. [...]

Making meaning

My camera, which over the past year has become something like an extension of my eye, is in the shop for repairs, and already I’ve gone bumbling around the house twice looking for it, forgetting it’s not here. It mysteriously started giving me ‘error 99′ messagesm and I am mourning it’s absense. So much to [...]

20 months

Dear Bean, You were perfectly behaved. You sat in a little yellow race car chair, and only winced when the hairstylist sprayed water on your hair. Afterwards we celebrated with a vanilla milk and an oatmeal-raisin cookie as big as your face. And just like that you left your baby self behind. Now we’re in [...]