Poetry for Procrastinators: I will Not Write a Poem About My Mother

I realize it’s a few weeks late, but I’d like to share a Mother’s Day poem. It was read on Mother’s Day, to my Mom, and to about 25 other people. It’s “Poetry Month” at church, in a year of appreciation for the arts in worship. As one of the Artists in Residence for this [...]

My Mother’s Moon

Just received this beautiful little series of images in an email from Mom, along with a sweet blessing and her own  hopeful suggestion that: “‘Fools’ aren’t necessarily foolish, and that we can get what we most passionately want, if our imagination is strong enough.” Tomorrow is my Mom’s birthday, and I wish you could all [...]

A Dollar for a Dream

Went for a nice long walk with Kanarie yesterday afternoon, during which she convinced me to buy my first Powerball Ticket. I don’t recall if I mentioned it to her at the time, but this is actually only the second lottery ticket I’ve bought in my life, the first being a ceremonial “yay, I’m 17″ [...]

Deep Fried Love

This is going to sound terrible, but here goes anyway… I can’t hold it in. Even if they’re really, really bad for you, some traditions just have to be honored. I know I know I know… this sounds like some sort of antiquated excuse for allowing all kinds of horrible practices to thrive over generations. Having [...]

Things I am Afraid Of

When I started to write this post — that is, just minutes ago, when I typed the title and readied the cursor for typing — I meant to write about a little thing, an annoyance, really to most people, that has terrified me since childhood. That will have to wait till later. Because right after I [...]

Year of Gratitude #20

I think it may be no accident that friends inspired me to make this a Year of Gratitude. How lucky that I committed to be grateful for the multitude of life’s good things mere weeks before a big, life-shaking event like being laid off from my job. To be clear, I’m not saying I won’t [...]

Year of Gratitude #12, #13, #14

Oooooh, Lordy, am I behind! But. In my defense, I have just returned from an out-of-town weekend, where access to the Internets was blissfully restricted and delightfully inconvenient. I made sure to bring a notebook to keep up on my Year of Gratitude while I was gone. However, perhaps I should warn you that I [...]

Year of Gratitude #11

Today I am grateful for: 1) The sleep I do get. As stated often in the last few posts, I’m having a lot of trouble sleeping. But I sure don’t have capital “I” Insomnia. Now that’s rough stuff. A couple of co-workers sometimes regale me with Tales of The Wide-Awake Curse. Ambien + Benadryl, sound [...]

“It’s the Hap-Happiest Season of All”

And the busiest! As you may have inferred from the last couple of posts, yes, I have indeed been struck down. BUT. If you think I’m letting the winter sickies spoil all the fun and merriment to be had this holiday season… well, you’re only half right. What with the Christmas show, the husband and [...]

Baby Steps: Small Victories!

Last Saturday, after a day of dancing hard at rehearsal, I braved the torrential freeways to Auburn for an afternoon and late-into-the-evening with SisterMeghanne and BabyDaniel. We watched a very sad movie, she taught me to make easy Chile Verde, and we just generally got some gooood SisterTime. It’s good to be catching up on [...]