Monthly Archives: November 2011

Ugh! I accidentally experienced the fringes of Black Friday

So… we had to go to the store tonight (for health reasons, so waiting until Saturday wasn’t an option), for an item you would find at a Hardware store or Target. But I decided to go to Walmart, assuming other … Continue reading

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we were quiet yesterday

one all-day in pajamas, beneath uniformly light, and later dark gray skies, wrapped in her husband’s too-big autumn jacket, her hands poking out of tattered sleeves, feet on the heater, soft rain tapping the roof top, near silence indoors, her … Continue reading

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“What would you like to be when you grow up?”

I was going to be an English teacher when I grew up (that was my answer when pressed to share information that felt like my business and not a conversation piece), until I couldn’t stand within the school’s thick brick … Continue reading

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present

I see the box in a shadow behind closed eyelids, a portrait of my computer screen, its light etched, for the moment, in my vision. I hear the fan’s whir beside my son. It stirs a thin sheet of humidity, … Continue reading

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spell broken

Fear circles, attached to nothing, floating there like it belongs, an untouchable shadow. I reach for word following word, tears prick the back of my eyes, I feel the universe stretching out endlessly, and time – the never knowing one … Continue reading

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gathering

there’s little to say before midnight. i could speak if you were here. we would play chess until clouds began to race over a sky-high moon, and we stop to lay beneath the stars and whisper, isn’t it amazing

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sweet possibility

I like a cool-weather, sunshine-bathed morning, slowly drinking steamy dark roast, each sip a prayer, Thank You Writing and blanket-washing top today’s agenda though comforters can wait until tomorrow if my pen hits a hot streak and takes me home … Continue reading

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I finally realized I can hang around upside down again!

Speaking the language of the djembe, learning how to play guitar, and becoming fluent in ASL are all good goals, but they are future-stuff (hopefully near), and I’m not yet very good at any of them. Whereas it finally hit … Continue reading

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Our first ten days living on the road

After living in the RV for three months in Illinois about ten miles from our secured-to-the-ground-house which is now rented out to another family, we headed south west. Our first brief settling place was the KOA in Springfield MO, an … Continue reading

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