Spring hastens forth, and I’m viscerally, pathetically grateful for it. I’m late to formally welcoming the Vernal Equinox in this space, but it comes and nods and passes, all the same. My feet long for the touch of cool – not cold – earth, I want to caress young pea… Continue reading »
Lifelines are the sunny day that peeps out behind the clouds teasing and coaxing you out to throw off your coat and contemplate rolling around on the still snow-soaked emergent grass technical color brilliance under diamond rays making you blink and squint when you say hello to the older couple walking… Continue reading »
In the last quarter of 2015, I seemed to be picking up my phone or sitting down at the computer every time I turned around. Facebook. Instagram. Facebook. Email. Facebook… and so it went. Consciously or unconsciously, checking for notifications, responding, and doing “needful” updates had turned into a habit,… Continue reading »
1: to commit (money) in order to earn a financial return I have often shied away from investing in classes. My excuse is often financial and there’s definitely truth in that, but I’ve realized there are deeper, more sinister reasons behind my refusal to lay down hard, cold plastic for… Continue reading »
The afternoons still slurry into soft heat, but mornings are nose-ticklingly crisp. Munchkin’s school is only six blocks away – so each morning I bundle the kids into the bike trailer, spread a blanket over their knees, and pedal like mad to make it before the bell. Three weeks in… Continue reading »
let us fly escape slip out between the bars of nine to five duck the glaring gatekeepers the shoulds and to dos obligations and burden let us transform self-destruct under murmuring sweet-scented pines drink deeply of crystal teeth-shattering lakes run naked under the benevolent gaze of the moon let us go… Continue reading »