My Kind of America
Got to hit the road and try to find My kind of America. It’s out there Somewhere: not too crowded, A farmer’s market weekly At the time of day convenient … Read More
Category: Life in America
Hold This Kitten, Would You?
Hold this kitten, would you, While I trick you into Reading poetry. Whoops! Now you’ve done it, Got yerself all intellectified With words in stacks. Poetry, you decry! Save me! … Read More
About that goat farm…
If you think about it, you and me “regular” people rely heavily on the super-bravery of other seemingly-average folks. I call these people “small business superheroes.” In the town where we … Read More
It’s good to hug a person
Ten years ago I lived on Delaware Road in London. Colin had gotten himself half-addicted to internet poker (mostly because he understood the algorithms) and I, in an attempt to … Read More
The Hard Way
We’ve got two lives: one we’re given and the other one we make, And the world won’t stop, and actions speak louder Listen to your heart, and your heart might … Read More
Hypnotized by the Mundane
Life is wild. Though… It is sometimes hard to see it. Especially since life can masquerade as being quite mundane. Get up. Go to work. Go to bed. Go to … Read More
Into the Zone – #reverb14, Day 4
We are all lightning rods, conduits for that which the Universe wants born into this world. What energies did you channel this year? — While day 2’s post I sang … Read More
It’s Just the Weather – #reverb14, Day 3
It’s all too easy to put off loving where we are until everything is perfect. What can you love about where you are now? Blergh. If I were a weather … Read More
On My Mother’s Island
This is the island where my mother is still living. There is not a great deal of the “normal” here. We are just a bunch of hangers on. For those … Read More
Life is Terrifying
I can remember one of the first really scary movies I saw. It was “The Giant Spider Invasion.” That classic 2-star fave came out in 1975. Which means someone in … Read More
Alone is Where We Are
The deluge came out in the general direction of Ridgefield artist Randi Jane Davis this past weekend at City-Wide Open Studios. Her painting (above), called “Three Blind Men” (in private … Read More
This is home
Two flights, five burgers at the Atlanta TGI Friday’s airport location. A bag of gummy Lifesavers, and of course, the real lifesavers: four headsets, an iPad and two iPhones with … Read More
Love, and Putting Out
The one true fact of being a girl is whenever or however you enter the world and, despite your best efforts otherwise, you are thrust into a world where you are expected … Read More
10 Reasons to Travel Back in Time
This past weekend, I had the chance to return to a place I once considered home: Kansas City. By home, I mean it was the place where I became the … Read More