then having swallowed him I’ll creep / into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.
Today I have a few minutes alone, in the vet, waiting on a diagnosis. Our little Pip is ill – a skin infection at his shoulder blades. The difficultly was discovered yesterday and though his spirits...
View Article“just a bunch of stuff that happened”
Yoga. Tonight on the floor, on my mat, my mind wanders. I think of a cigarette. Then I think how funny it would be if I just calmly lit up in class. There are so many people here on the floor we have...
View Articlethe ground I stand upon
My son takes a day at home, a nasty bout with tonsillitis. (Pip helps him rest.) Today he is much improved; he arranges a picnic with his grandmother, and I drive out to pick my daughter up at the bus...
View Articlethe world sometimes seems full of people being cruel, but I’ve got this...
My son emerges from the bath, wrapped in a red terrycloth robe. I bought it for him for his last birthday and, far less than a year later, it is now too small. “Is there anything I can bring you,...
View Articlethe fox in the snow
It’s cold. Cold and windy some days; merely cold others. I dress as best I can for the morning walks with my dog and frankly I’d rather end up over-bundled than the opposite. My dog is a fit and hardy...
View Articleon hospitality
Today is less peachy-keen than yesterday. Still very low levels of kidney pain – most of the day, non-existent – but I am fatigued, and suffered a good deal of nausea rising in the later part of the...
View Articleno family is safe when I sashay!
I’m up before the children – three, in all – and I have those few minutes after my husband leaves for work, and before anyone else joins me. I shower, and dress. No makeup but a little lipstick – hair...
View Articlean extra baby just for a minute
omg baby looks sad here but she really was OK – promise! So a year ago last night, I helped my friend through a dark time in the ER. I thought a lot that night about how wonderful a gift sobriety is....
View Articlein SPACE-VISION™
I am elbows-deep in supporting my kids through their schooling and extracurricular activities, paying our bills and keeping house, practicing yoga daily, firing up my B-movie site in a big way (as well...
View Articlest. bernadette
Today, I don’t understand what happened. I get up and discover that some time in the early morning, before anyone was up, a neighbor came over to report a cat killed by a motorist – a Siamese-marked...
View Articlethe day I became an Aberdonian
The day before the move: packed up, and (mostly) ready to go: Annnd… we are homeowners! A friend asked for a ride on our big day. And like – of course! So she got to share in my little photoblog: So…...
View Articleso everyone is pretty much settled in
I can’t believe how many changes hit our family at once. A couple are too private to write about – at least, not at the moment, not until I can collect my thoughts. But – we bought a house, we moved,...
View Articlethe point of pain, perhaps there is no point
I am packing up to head into town with the children. My daughter takes the recycling out, headphones in her little jewel-like ears, as per usual. I hear a small commotion and look outside to see the...
View Articlemilk-fang
My dreams have been restless of late. Two nights ago my husband and I were entertaining suitors, men and women who wanted to carry off and then marry our girlchild. In the dream my daughter was so...
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The children were outside playing a game, after a swim date and a full spread of party fare and a special birthday cake, when we discovered Trout had delivered her kittens. She came to us Tuesday, as a...
View Articlehow could such a little thing as this / Hold death
It’s a perfect kind of night for a funeral. It’s dark and quiet, no wind. A chill in the air, but nothing a car coat won’t stave off. My husband, son, and I make our way a mile down the hill and the...
View Articlescuffing one’s toe at the abyss
Today my lithotripsy procedure was moved up a few hours. As it worked out, the family and friend who’d planned to accompany me – to give me moral support and to drive me home – weren’t able to be...
View Articlea sponge dipped in vinegar
When I was thirteen, one evening during a week-long family reunion we went out as a crew to a drive-in theater. I remember what was showing – Bird on a Wire and Arachnophobia. (Great drive-in fare –...
View Articleif you fall asleep, down by the water / baby I’ll carry you all the way home
Christmas was not precisely difficult this year; but it was a bit off. On the 17th of December, a series of ATM fraud charges cleaned out our account – I mean entirely, taking our pending mortgage...
View Articlewith the stillness of the air
I am playing a game with myself where I try to hustle up work, and then try to catch up with what I’ve hustled, and work as quickly and expertly as possible. So far, it’s going swimmingly. My studio is...
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