In transition
My Prompt workshop ends this week, which makes me sad. I had a lot of fun meeting everybody in the group and listening to their (brilliant) writing. I won't say that participating in the workshop...
View ArticleLearning to sail my ship
My life has been packed of late, mostly with very good things. My days are a mix of work, homework and Write Around Portland that, if only I had a little more time for sleeping, would be near perfect....
View ArticleDreaming of sunny shores...
I've been reading nothing but children's books for the past month and it's got me talking funny. So you will understand when I say that last week was a dreadful, beastly thing. I had to go into work at...
View ArticleLong overdue
I was in a car accident this morning. Just driving back from yoga, thinking about going to one of my favorite brunch places for coffee and eggs, when all of a sudden there was a green Subaru Forester...
View ArticleLuck & love
I'm less mad today, even though I now know that my insurance company wants me to come up with $1000 before they'll fix my car. Instead, today has been filled with reminiscences, bittersweetness, and...
View ArticleGah! Fix it!
As a result of the accident, I went to a chiropractor. He had me go to a digital imaging place and have a bajillion x-rays done (on my insurance company's dime, which is a-OK with me). He could find no...
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To find out
I bought these ranunculus (ranunculuses?) at New Seasons the other day. Though I love looking at the flowers on my way in and out of the market I don't often allow myself to spend money on such...
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A poem
Happy face spiders Are not big enough to be scary butWhy must they grin so mockingly?Arachnid Theridion grallator, “Bob”,I hope we can coexist with a minimum of awkwardness andInvasion of personal space
View ArticleCommitment
Mention a ten day vipassana meditation course to someone who has experienced it and you will invariably get a warning about the hell that is day four. Day four is when this little experiment you've...
View ArticleJoin the club
I've been thinking about Apple products lately, specifically iPads. I've been considering getting an iPad, presumably to use for writing though it is clear that its usefulness as a writing computer is...
View ArticleSay Uncle (or...Aunt?)
My brother's wife had a baby a few weeks ago, and from what I can gather, parenthood seems to be a very humbling experience. No matter how well-prepared you are, there are going to be moments when you...
View ArticleFingers crossed
I'm at loose ends lately, literally and figuratively. At this very moment about a third of my belongings are packed into cardboard boxes neatly stacked by the front door, another third in bags awaiting...
View ArticleHave reached destination. Want bed.
Hi friends! I'm writing this from a hostel in San Francisco. Yes, after 17 hours on a train, 30 mins on an Amtrak bus, 15 minutes on a Muni bus and a half-mile walk, I'm finally, finally here. And...
View ArticleEverything is amazing
So if you read the comments on the last entry you won't be even the tiniest bit surprised that moments after I wrote it I connected with the inimitable Marilyn Wann, fat activist extraordinaire. She...
View ArticleAn introduction
Who are you?You don't really want to know. You think you do, but if I started telling my story, my whole story, and if we were sitting across from each other in a diner or a bar or a table on a train,...
View ArticleI'm up
When did you realize you were a grown up?Okay, my knee-jerk reaction is to say I'm not a grown-up and I don't intend to ever be one, but I guess that's not entirely accurate. Growing up, to me, is...
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Now I see
What's the most difficult challenge you've faced in a relationship?I've only ever had one relationship that was serious enough to have challenges beyond "we're all wrong for each other and we should...
View ArticleI go away
Talk about a time when you left home.I am crouched in the tall weeds in a field across the street from my house. I am small, maybe 7 or 8. Old enough to be in school because it's after school now, in...
View ArticleFear wins
Talk about your childhood bedroom.My bedroom is at the end of the hall, the creamy white walls covered in clusters of delicate pink roses. I am sitting cross-legged in an ocean of green low-pile...
View ArticleOn the Inside
List the tribes you belong to. Talk about the experience of being in your element with your tribes.A few years ago I was living in a lovely, expensive double studio on Hawthorne Boulevard, the heart...
View ArticleThe way I do it
It's May 2008, a really fine May too, the sun shines and the streets are coated in delicate cherry blossom petals. I've just spent the better part of a morning getting scrubbed, plucked and polished...
View ArticlePut this in your Thanksgiving belly
Hey dudes. It's been a long time. Eventually I'll get back to baring my soul on these pages but in the interim it's almost Thanksgiving and that makes it a good time to repost my favorite stuffing...
View ArticleThighs
Chicken thighs, man. If ever I had a nemesis in the food world, they'd be it. They look all innocent and friendly in the package, like tiny pink juicy chicken breasts all lined up in a row. Once you...
View ArticleHome again
We did see the inside, we did love it as much as we thought we would, but then we found out there were six other applications on the house already. We were tempted to just give up but decided to throw...
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