Velvet Verbosity

I realized tonight that I vowed I wasn’t going to do stressful holidays anymore, and in that spirit I’m going to take a couple of weeks off from Velvet Verbosity so that I can have a few more hours to add to the holiday schedule. Hours that I hope will allow me to relax into [...]

The kittens are at the foot of my bed playing with a mouse on a string, taking turns batting and gnawing. They have become quite delightful, fetching toys, wrestling one another, sleeping on heads and tucked under chins, trilling their greetings, and showing off their intelligence to the delight of visitors. Over the weekend we [...]

The house is quiet. Two of my people are out holiday shopping, and the third fell asleep early on the couch, his freshly showered hair spiking out at odd angles from underneath a comforter. Quiet reminds me of what I loved about the early days of motherhood. The frequent naps, the husband gone for the [...]

Here come the holidays. First up, Thanksgiving. I’m not making a turkey this year. No, instead my daughter wants to go to New York to see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, live. Which is, in my book, all kinds of crazy and yet…it’s not the first crazy road trip the two of us have embarked [...]

In the morning we lay in my bed bonelessly entwined, breathing each other’s breath as we talked in that inaniloquent way of lovers. You laughed when I told you how Maria had called the snowdrifts pressing against the windows snow elephants. These were the incidentals we turned into treasure chests, the words in which we [...]

I woke this morning to white sunlight across my white comforter and wondered for a brief moment if it had snowed in the night. Such are the things the mind does in that intersection between sleeping and waking. A place I wish I could choose to live in at will. Life would be much softer. [...]

Ah my dear word-nerds, I got buried by Snowtober 2011, was without power for 4 days, and then travelled across two state lines to bring home two rescue kittens, one of which I’ve been nursing back to health (I hope). My daughter, bless her, made me do it and it’s been an emotional roller-coaster up [...]

As I type this I am completely alone in the house. Completely alone. I love my people, but I don’t get enough time like this – hours upon beautiful quiet hours in which I can have uninterrupted thoughts. There is only one thing wrong. Usually when I have the house to myself I’m not actually [...]

Yes, I’ll be late to my own funeral. I’m sure of it. Busy per the usual. Did you read about Times Square this past weekend? Dudes, I. was. there. And then somehow the next day I found myself swept up by a little vortex of luck and serendipity that dropped me into the middle of [...]

Is it just me, or is time flying lately? I’ve been seeing more activity around the internets about National Novel Writing Month because, holy crap, it’s just around the corner! My tactic for this November is to not even pretend I’m going to persevere and finish. My version of reverse psychology. I’ll let you know [...]