Housekeeping: Maternity Leave

Ha ha! Housekeeping? Ah hahahaha! Here I sit at the computer on a very rare and very short free moment, surrounded by piles and stacks of unopened mail and laundry drifting through the living room like so many giant October leaves, all of it liberally dotted with the ubiquitous cloth diapers delivered unto this house [...]

March is a Lost Month

Yowza. I don’t know how you all feel about March, but March—for me, anyhow—is the most restless of all months. I’ve mentioned it here before, but every year it becomes more and more elusive, and harder and harder to tie down and make more aware of its responsibilites! And yes, this year, March 2010, shall be [...]

Year of Gratitude #22

Ooof, I’ve been away a long time, it seems. A whole week? How’d that happen? Actually, I can tell you very easily how it happened… there’s this peculiar aspect to blogging (for me) that holds me accountable. And when I start to get behind, I keep telling myself, “the next post will be a really good one [...]

The 27th Year: A thorough review & analysis

Hooray! It’s my birthday today! I got all dressed up for work (even broke out a silk pleated dress and pretty rosette heels), went to a birthday lunch with our drummer (his birthday is tomorrow), ate yummy exotic chocolate from TheBosslady, and am saving the husband’s GF cupcake for later. In awhile, I’m heading out [...]

Writing :: Breathing

Just thinking “out loud” here… I just looked at the little Calendar widget on the left there, and was quite pleased to see so many underlined days in the month of January– that means I’ve been writing often, nearly every day, in fact. YOG has been wonderful for that so far. You may recall daily [...]

Naked Blog… again.

Just a little note… I realize once more that this poor little kicked-around blog has been mostly devoid of imagery, other than what I can scrounge up off the Internets.  Sorry about that. I believe the techno-verse is conspiring against me again… in addition to blog issues, the husband and I are having computer issues [...]

For the time being…

So it turns out being Mistress of My Own Domain requires a little more upkeep at the upshot than I expected. Dungeons to clean. Turrets to re-enforce. Hiring newer, more diplomatic border-guards and planting trees…. that kind of thing. Oh, and in terms of the internets and this here little blog… well, it means there [...]

Changing Blog Locations!

UPDATE: Until further notice, just keep it here! I’m still figuring out the new place. Boo. Sigh. Ah well. Just keep writing, right? Right. Exciting news, everyone! I am now the mistress of my own domain! MwahHAHAhahahahahah! Er… that is to say: Guess What? I am now a blog owner! Yup, onefootonshore.com is now a [...]

Postcard Poetry: Teaser & Relocation

In the interest of space, I’ve decided to move all the PostCard Poetry over onto the Words! page. Here’s one of many new ones you’ll find there, from a little book of Degas postcards. “Dance in the Country“ This fine man is smooth and dumb, doesn’t intimate one shuffle-step-lean that you have lit my smile. [...]

Back to the Mainland

And so we bid them all adieu–the mountains, the surf, the swimmable beaches, the rocky cliffs, the tourist traps, the the bright spiky plants, and HawaiiFamily and the dog. In the next few days, I’ll post some retro-dated bits about the second half of the trip (when I was waaay too relaxed to just get [...]