(a long story about shorter things…) There is this book that I have been holding for more than a year now,it is a book of smallish proportions, yet only in size and certainly not in stature. I don’t so often…
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Today is an office day,which really means that I move seats,from the comforts of my chair by the windowto a more sturdy solid chair at the tableit is time to get things donestill a little bit of sorting out after…
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that I should be so entranced by the very promiseof loveas to be wishing that someone, somewherewould write for mea love song, possibly just a few lines that read like poetry, of longingand admirationof desperation and hopeto have someone enchanted…
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Last night I had a dream that friends arrived at ours and brought with thema new kitchen floor, for usa pallet plunked in the middle of the roompiled with a thousand puzzle like piecesthat we had to break apart, and…
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Fair warning that this may prove to be ratherdismal… December 29th in the rainand so it is that we have again come throughanother Christmasperfectly sated, suitably happycomfortablytiredthe dreariness of this dayhas one feeling slightly dullish in tonefestive decorations losing a…
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This morning starts a little salty,the dog wakes me way too early for a Sundayand December being what it is has my husbandspending many hours at work, and just not enough at homewhere I can entertain him with my intelligence…
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Three or four days ago, I feel compelled to write down a few words,then release them to thewindwhen it happens that words seem to comeI write without over analyzing, I write of a feeling as best I canthis one is…
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Once again I find myself reading a memoir where alcoholstrikes at its core I wonder if at some point in our childhood, or just when.. as young tender heartswe start to compensate for the painof our parentsand just how it…
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A dull colourless sort of day, early December, large wet flakes of snow drifting idly to the ground, then mostly surrendering themselves on contact.No sun. This morning I read Devotion by Patti Smith, an intimate and intriguing look into writing…
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This morning finds me somewhat frustrated by my husband’s,closed off quiet-ish habit of internalizing worry(as men do) which leaves one feeling a little outside looking in, unable to hear the presentconversationand offer softening reason and supporta very Venus and Mars…
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