officially freaking out

I’ve mentioned before how scheduling isn’t particularly a strength, and though I do own a calendar, I don’t seem to know how to use it. I’ve been going through this week happily thinking I had the ENTIRE WEEK of winter vacation (next week) off to work on my grad school application (20 page manuscript, shudder, [...]

A reader's life…

Before reading I listened. I was the eleven-year-old with scratches on her knees, perched on the armrest of my dad’s tan Lazy Boy, listening to Huckleberry Finn and The Yearling. I was a late reader; a kid in the ‘special’ reading group. But those early years when reading wasn’t really mine, gave me stories in [...]

2 Years Old

Happy Birthday Little One, You are two today, bright eyed and full of laughter. When you woke up this morning, you called for Daddy, and he brought you to bed between us, where you snoozed dreamily for another hour, content in a cocoon of love and warm breath between us. When you woke for the [...]

Snowday # 2

Yipeeee! Snow feet deep in drifts by the door, and another day of canceled school. Another day to write, and sip chai tea, and play with Bean (just hours left until he’s two, really). Sometimes winter doesn’t suck.

Self portrait challenge: black & white # 2

Unexpected gratitude at 5:15 a.m., snow already piled high, and more steadily falling. A morning to myself, writing, with coffee. My studio a haven for a few hours, while I flail about like a spawning salmon, trying to get the words right. Working my way paragraph by paragraph towards the fresh water of what it [...]