Mama, get out
Bean spent the weekend with his Daddy in NJ, leaving me to a blissful empty house to finally get some serious writing done. Six hours at a stretch, uniterrupted. Going to bed in the wee hours of morning and sleeping in. Time to actually revise what I write. Oh lordy, it was good. But man, [...]
In the midst of it
Flecked across the page, the doorway of my heart, wide bands of color from a horsetail brush, a blade, an inkpen. It’s so easy to be hurt. So easy to withhold even the smallest scrap of willingness to travel on, past the point where words were slung about with careless grandeur. Past where the hurt [...]
Winter longing
The cold has finally arrived. “Come on,” it says, “hunker down.” It sends us snuggling under comforters, or to the couch to curl around a book, sipping green tea from a tall mug, as its long fingers creep in under the lintel. It gathers around the window glass, leaving hooray etchings where condensation lingered not [...]
And we're done
NaNoBloPoMo is over, and I’m so ecstatic that I can go back to being frivolous and lazy and completely irresponsible about posting. I’ve also decided that because it became my posting art form this month I’ll leave you with a list of things I hope to accomplish in the next few weeks. To make me [...]
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