Glimpses from Sunday ::

We sip pink homemade smoothies with striped bendy straws. Bean grins up at me. We clink our glasses together. “Cheers,” he says. Against the window, white snow falling sideways. A jar of golden honey on the counter. I’ve been curled into the corner nook on the couch all day with my laptop. Achy: pms and [...]

Sundown

Took my camera with me to the waterfront with the boys for a walk. Got the skunk scent out of my cat with a natural enzyme spray: no tomato baths necessary! Woke up today with a splitting headache. Now I have a fever. I can thank the kiddos at work for this one. I am [...]

My cat got sprayed by a skunk.

Help. She smells awful and is currently spending the night in the garage with a bunch of old towels (sprinkled with catnip to sweeten the deal) until I have the time to figure out what the hell to do with her. How do you wash a cat in tomato juice?? Any and all suggestions welcome.

Wednesday::

I woke up in the middle of the night to a nosebleed. In the dark I could imagine the color, my cupped hand already filling, reaching for tissues. In the morning an ice storm, a two hour delay, lingering over coffee. At school, everything out of routine, topsy turvy, but we’re talking about poems and [...]

Attempting

I make lunch the night before; do yoga first thing; then come home from work and play with my boys. The three of us take a long walk down the melting muddied road. It is pock marked with potholes: perfect circles of mud and splashy water, just right for jumping, which Bean does in his [...]