Rebecca passed away this morning at 4AM. Same day, same hour as my mom 11 years ago. I don’t know if you remember, but I often mourn the fact that I don’t “feel” my mom’s spirit. I’m happy to say that today, driving home from the hospital, I felt Rebecca all around me.…Continue Reading
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Moving On
I had all kinds of things planned for today: a giveaway, a rumination, a weekend update, but my beloved Rebecca is back in the hospital after being in the convalescent home for two weeks. I don’t think it’s good, it’s looking like renal failure, and the blustery November wind that I love so, is…Continue Reading
So Close
I was 15 and working at a gift shop in a charming restored early 19th century village. I often worked alone and when business was slow, I hopped next door to waitress at the Peppermint Stick, where I’d cheerfully spill coffee on strangers and get ice cream orders all wrong. One Sunday afternoon,…Continue Reading
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November’s Book Club
Just finished The Keep in time for book club tomorrow. I’m still mulling it over. Can’t decide if I give it a thumbs up or down.
Holiday Shopping: DONE! (Kinda) (Well, no. Not really.)
HP Photo Creations kiosk coupon for a “buy one, get one free” photo calendar here! (Just found out this was only good in California.) (Unlike Prop 8.) (Thanks KD)
Jumping the Track
Those were the days. Dear People Who Read My Blog: In a little over two weeks from now, I will be ever-lovin’ 40. So for a moment, I’d like us all to forget the soul searching and epiphanies I’ve shared on this space and tell you: I’m freaking the frack out. …Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #29: I Was There
History’s being made, can you feel it? The bubbles in the atmosphere? The sense that when they pop, the air around them will change? Or else the they’ll float into space, bouncing like sound waves, carrying the news of today into tomorrow? So where were you when history was laid down? Was the TV…Continue Reading
Definitely, Maybe
I came home from a haunted house tour Thursday night disappointed that I hadn’t glimpsed any ghosts. It must’ve been about 10:45PM, and I tramped upstairs, surprised to see The Rock awake and alert. I’d been waiting to complain to someone and now I had a readymade audience. He looked up from the TV, waiting…Continue Reading
Into the Great White Open; Under Them Skies of Blue
Sometimes I mistake it for melancholy. And maybe now and then it is. She absorbs moods, energies, feelings instantly and spits them back out like a crazy spigot, but after the initial flood, she settles into quiet reflection. It’s almost as if she’s saturated by the sheer intensity of her emotion and can’t take…Continue Reading
Loose Ends
Chris gently reminded me that I haven’t updated on my chemical peel yet, and by George if she ain’t right. So here’s the thing: I don’t look like this anymore. Now, I look way more like this: I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like I had the peel,…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #28: Where I’m From
I think this started as a meme. I’ve read several outstanding versions of it over the last year, and I thought I’d like to offer it as a PROMPTuesday, so… I am. This week, tell us who you are, what’s inside, where you’re from. Share your memory fragments, those visions in your head,…Continue Reading
