The ebb and flow of the tide isn’t as symmetrical as I first thought. There’s a different tide each time but the coming and going remains the same.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Spring is exhausting
I keep telling my cats that spring is exhausting. As if they ever listen. When Stoner was around I would warn her. Days and days ahead of the actual event I would tell her to remember how completely exhausting it was, try to remember and so on. Nothing doing. Running from window to window,...
No fan of the ma’am
Let me put it this way, I was surprised when I thanked him for not calling me ma’am and he replied, “I’m no fan of the ma’am.” Do I have to write any more than this? Do the women out there get it? When did it start for you, were you in your thirties,...
Mineral Hallucinations
She snugged up to the tree. Felt the coils of the tree bark. Remembered her braids when she was a little girl. Felt twisted in her thoughts, braided to her dreams, tied to the tree and free to travel down the stream of images coming at her. It seemed as if her mind...
Katrina’s Rain
Wishing New Orleans a Happy and Healthy Easter - Enjoy your 75 degree weather! Hope you enjoy the poem below written by a community of people wishing to reach out to you all when Hurrrican Katrina hit. Peace. Katrina’s Rain What’s in that gumbo that closed the bars, swamped the music and floated Orleans...
Foggy days of spring
Woke up to a great fog coming up the hill and crossing the boundary onto my property line. Some things know no borders and that’s a good thing. Wish peace and all good things were like that. Waxing sentimental. Would have should have put “sentimental” as a tag on this site and several posts....
Balancing with chocolate
There’s times when women that crave chocolate must be the smartest people on the planet. With wine, first one day it’s good for you and the next it isn’t. Or you have friends that can’t drink, won’t drink, are on the wagon or steering clear of nitrates, additives and fake corks. But with chocolate...
Stars
The problem, as I see it, with the gold stars that they give out or used to, in kindergarten and grade school is that it makes us want to achieve something or to be recognized for being the best at something. When it comes to aging gracefully and going to doctor’s visits, getting your...