I’m flying to Phoenix for a minute in the morning. I’ve been running around crazy, bawling, scrambling. My schedule is kablooey and my nerves are frayed. I cant stop thinking about this tree we cut down, and scales of time. Human lifetime vs tree lifetime vs river lifetime vs stone Read more…
Today a group of three men cut down the Ghost pine that family mythology says my grandmother and second uncle planted something like 60 years ago. It was at least 75-feet tall and leaned drunkenly toward the garage and new roof. It had to come down, the arborist said. It Read more…
iveeither gor E. coli or vibriosis.whaivhevere, and from what food I do not care.ive never felt this sick and not gone to urgent care. That’s for tomorrow ifi still feel the same.
I did a little better today in that I got farther along on my daily to-do list. But then I started my taxes and that took four hours and nearly four hundred bucks and now all the optimism and hopes of spring are gone. I stupidly imagined I might just Read more…
My online course starts on Monday, and today was my day to log in and make sure it all looked okay. But a technical difficulty made that impossible. Instead I went to see The Shape of Water. As far as comic-book-esque films go, it was well done. I haven’t been Read more…
The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible 1 A piece of flesh gives offsmoke in the field– carrion,caput mortuum,orts,pelf,fenks,sordes,gurry dumped from hospital trashcans. Lieutenant!This corpse will not stop burning! 2 “That you Captain? Sure,sure I remember–I still hear youlecturing at me on the intercom, Keep your guns up, Burnsie!and then screaming, Stop shooting, Read more…
I usually listen to some wonderful/horrible “pop cardio” mix on Pandora when I run, but the last few weeks have been tough, even with running, even with eating right, even with picking up the phone and talking to people now and again. So on my last run, I decided to Read more…
Last Saturday I organized a garage sale for myself, my boyfriend, and his brother’s wife. I have only a few things to sell, but since I have to move across the country again soon (and covering my own expenses on this one), every pound and inch of space needs to Read more…
Since Sunday evening, I’ve been in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown MA, thanks to a generous scholarship. My class this week is being taught by Joanne Dugan and it’s called “The Photograph and The Word: Showing what you can’t always see.” I’ve been inspired by the Read more…