Falling back in love with my story

I’m happy today. Happy and exhausted. I didn’t sleep well last night; white winds rattled the windows of my friends’ house where I slept last night and I flipped back and forth on that very comfortable guest bed in the music room, adjusting pillows...

2011 in review – how the blog stacked up

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 33 trips to carry that...

Hundred day cough and a concrete tumble

I’m a mess. Funny how the body in turmoil tips the emotions and shakes them on their head, too.  I’ve had a cough for weeks that is so deep that even a tiny version of it erupting causes my friends to raise their eyebrows in concern and exclaim, “Oh...

Seasons – outside and inside

On my way to town I heard the song, Morning Moon and I looked up into the western sky and there it was, slim and translucent  as the inside of a tide-worn shell. It’s cold now, the road scrambling with brown and yellow leaves, skunks, porcupines, racoons and squirrels...

INDIVIDUATION – the heartbreak of motherhood

My son is doing what he’s programmed to do and he’s doing it remarkably well. I’m not talking about the grace and power of his Grass dancing, nor am I referring to the Bronze Cross he earned this summer which puts him in line for Lifeguard training. I’m not talking...