Archive for the ‘100 Words’ Category
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 [...]
