It all started with a pink, plastic bird – one of those ones with funky metal sticks for legs, so you can stand them... Read More
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… on landslides and new landscapes
There’s this song that’s been following me around for about a year, maybe a little more. Creepily showing up at the oddest times, sometimes... Read More
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… on drop offs (and drop outs) and pick ups
I’m not sure if that magnet, which sits above Gronk’s* gas tank filler upper door, is about Marshal Dillon Dingle, or about me. I... Read More
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… on nicknames lived up to
The Disposable Shack. Disposed. Well, not quite. But now I am thinking it was so unfair to refer to this wonderful home as the... Read More
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… on making sense of self
So… there’s this dress. I can’t tell you much about it because it’s a secret. Not being a member of the Wedding Tradeworkers Union,... Read More
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… on putting your work ‘out there’
It’s totally freaky. Cars are going by more slowly and I swear they can see me swimming in my fishbowl. Yesterday, a ‘for sale’... Read More
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… on knowing, and *knowing*
Until about twenty minutes ago, I couldn’t look. Totally true. It’s been nearly a week since Sam’s accident down in New Orleans, and all... Read More
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… on gentle reminders
A gentle reminder… Tap on the shoulder… A whisper of a memory… Or that freaky scene in Poltergeist where Carol-Anne turns from the television and... Read More
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… on frames, framing and framed
Years ago, when the Nearly Perfect Husband and I could finally afford food and a roof over our heads (and haircuts… that was big... Read More
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… on shades of blue
The light streams in The world anew In dawning, dulcet Shades of blue. The snowflakes fly As snowflakes do In Maine, if not In... Read More
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… on feelin’ drift-y
Down by the dock in Maine, for more than a decade, has been this piece of driftwood. It sits on this mossy outcropping of... Read More
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… on scheduling nothing
Years ago, when JoHn and I were both still working bazillion hour weeks and juggling our careers with two, then three kids, we would schedule days... Read More