I’ll always remember you 2014
My mother was not sentimental. She saw the world in a very pragmatic way. If you were not feeling happy, well… just cheer up. If you were feeling ill… well, … Read More
Category: People are people
My philosophies of people and their people-ness.
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
With All the Time That You Have Left – #reverb14 Day 1
What can you say right now with certainty? This I can say for certain. “All the time that you have left is in your hand, right now.” How this plays … 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
After the End of the World
After the doctor broke the news to my mom and dad and me that mom would die soon, I held onto the 15 cent spiral notebook like it was a … 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
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
Notes from Inside the Train
In Philadelphia, the quiet car fills up completely– so completely that I can’t keep my screen hidden from my seat mate. I don’t know him, but I know enough that … Read More
On Year 44
As I walked from home to the playground today to pick up the kids, it occurred to me that — perhaps — at some point in one’s life it is … Read More
20 questions for a New Year’s Eve reflection (Thanks Tsh!)
“20 questions for a New Year’s Eve reflection” is posted originally at “The Art of Simple” blog. I’ve decided to post the questions here and drop in my answers. 1. … Read More
The Way Forward Isn’t Necessarily Straight – #reverb13 – Day 20
My old boyfriend Lee used to say, as we were driving in his car: “NEVER GO STRAIGHT! ALWAYS GO GAILY FORWARD!” Such effervescent and insistent proclamations in the case of … Read More
Addicted to Loathing – #reverb13 – Day 16
On my “bad days,” the one thing I hear over and over again from people who love me is: “You are too hard on yourself!” This bad habit of self-loathing … Read More
It’s Just People, That’s All – #reverb13 – Day 9
I admit that the idea of being “inspired” hits me in a sort of hokey way. I think it’s because, in my line of work (i.e. being an artist), there … Read More
Being Out There Again – #reverb13 – Day 5
Right now, you are experiencing with me my biggest risk of 2013. Back in 2009, after the kids came to live with us, the kids’ attorney advised me to consider … Read More