My (Internal) Midwestern Landscape
Here is the look of the Midwest in a summer storm. To me, this landscape is not only the most familiar, it is the most comforting. How can a sky … Read More
Category: Photography
If I Bother to Look Up
If I bother to look up, this is the view from my desk, where I work, over my left shoulder. I often don’t look up, because my head is “in … Read More
How I See My Selfie – #reverb13 – Day 7
I have two absolutely wonderful sweet and generous friends who also happen to be gorgeous. They totally intimidate me. They love to exercise at classes that actually cause one to … Read More
My Heart Sends Me Flowers – #reverb13 – Day 3
I need to get l**d. I need another cup of coffee. I need to walk the dog. Are my hands in the right place? it really bothers me when I … Read More
What We Did in Summer
I don’t remember what I did in the summer as a kid. Not specifically. I remember that I played outside with the neighbor kids and my siblings. We rode bikes … Read More
11 Minutes is alot of Time
Today is wrote a small stone called “The Time.” I wrote it for two reasons. First, because I notice I had about 11 minutes before the kids had to leave … Read More
When I’m Wearing Home Shoes
These are my “home shoes.” I don’t mean slippers or anything like that. What I mean is: when I am wearing this shoe configuation — ie. tennis shoes and blue … Read More
How to Be Amazing
One of my favorite things to write about is PEOPLE. I often get the chance to interview people and just ask them: How did you end up here? By “here” … Read More
Sometimes it Takes Awhile
The summer the kids and Colin and I went to Maine, we were not right in the head. That is to say, life was a little askew for all of … Read More
What an Orchid Eats
The orchid and its splitting leaves Sat drying out on the Tank of our toilet for a Year, uncomplaining about The noise, and the sheetrock dust, but, Most of all, … Read More
I Keep on Forgetting
I am making some updates to my blogrolls, here and on my home page. It’s tedious, but it’s been on my to do list for a long time. That’s because … Read More
Why the Details Matter
I set the table with Clean, cut glasses, Christmas crackers Flatware. Before breakfast All the flat edges glimmer In anticipation. Do you ever wonder: What the hell is the point … Read More
Paying for Santa
Number four child was TRYING to whisper in Jolly Old St. Nick’s ear at the Santa Village when she was interrupted. Elf: “WHICH PHOTO PACKAGE DID YOU BUY?!” the elf … Read More
Smashing November
What is the rush, Rima asks? What is the haste to make waste of Autumn? — Part of “If Only in My Dreams,” the December Series of The Big Question.
On Nostalgia: Wanting What We Already Had
No matter where we fly, we are never free of memory.