You know how you listen to a certain song and instantly feel revived and happy? For some reason, most of those songs for me (with the sole exception of everything the Indigo Girls ever sang) are solidly rooted in the 70s and early 80s. I’ve no real idea why, other than I have sharp and…Continue Reading
Playlists
Melodiusnessessness (Which is more than one melodious)
(This is a re-post from 2009 because my head hurts and I like music. Really, those are the two reasons.) I’ve oft professed my undying love for music. As an angsty adolescent, I laid in bed with earphones every night, my yellow Sony walkman clasped in my hands, listening to the Little River…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #137: Zen
Everyone? When is the last time you felt completely at peace? That all was right with the world? Please share your moment. And adjunctively (possibly and probably a made-up word), is there something you do to reach a zen state? Kindly share your mantra. If you would, post your submission…Continue Reading
Momma Love
I am writing this for Auds’ beautiful daughter, Meg. For some reason, I never expected to have children, despite Kathy King’s mumbo-jumbo “yarn” trick sophomore year that told me I’d be a mother to 16. I didn’t think I’d be married, either. I will admit that for awhile there, I DID wonder if maybe…Continue Reading
Lessons
For as long as I can remember, I’ve watched my dad work hard. Beyond the norm, hard. Beyond the extraordinary, hard. He’s the sort to put his all into whatever he does and he gave his heart, soul, mind, and body to every company for which he worked. He wasn’t home much when I was…Continue Reading
“The Room”
Most days, I choose not to look inside and close “the room” to general viewing. If someone forgets to pull the door shut, I, unprepared for the vicious assault on my senses, cringe as I walk past, and pretend it doesn’t exist. Just doesn’t exist. It’s a figment of my imagination, a portal to another,…Continue Reading
Sunday’s Music
I used to do this Playlist thing on here, and I miss it, so today I am resurrecting it for my own amusement. Recently, I decided to give a listen to some “world” music and other tunes completely foreign to my element because I wanted to jump out of my skin a little. I…Continue Reading
Melodiusness
I’ve oft professed my undying love for music. As an angsty adolescent, I laid in bed with earphones every night, my yellow Sony walkman clasped in my hands, listening to the Little River Band’s Help is On the Way or Chicago’s I’ve Been Searching So Long. Way before that, as a new-to-school third-grader, I stuck…Continue Reading
Ellipses
You wouldn’t believe the enormous writer’s block I’m battling right now. My brain’s shut down. Maybe to devote its energy to raising my serotonin levels. Seems like every sentence I write is clunky and humorless. So, let me just tell you that I’m walking along oceans, listening to music, and eating healthy. My mind and…Continue Reading
April 20, 1941 – November 10, 1997
This Sunday’s Playlist is dedicated to my mom, Angela, who would have been 67 today. (Please note that if you do follow that link above, I included it in the interest of full disclosure. I wasn’t all light and rainbows when it came to my mom. In fact, after she died, I was still…Continue Reading
Sunday’s Playlist: Yes, I Know It’s Monday, But Come, Come Play With Me In My Imaginary World of “It’s Still Sunday”
Welcome! It’s warm and sunny here in SundayLand, is it not? Also, did you just get back from church? Being that it’s Sunday, I thought maybe you had. Or perhaps you just had a Sunday brunch? Or a Sunday walk with the family? Better yet, did you just have a…Continue Reading
Sunday’s Playlist: All True
All these songs mean something to me. None of them are random or afterthoughts. Each offers specific insight into the emotions that shook me this weekend, then left me to crawl on the sand of my husband’s shore. That doesn’t make sense does it? It does to me.
