2023-05-15 11:54
I am grateful today for my two ridiculous trips to Publix yesterday to replenish necessary ingredients for my two coffee cakes that I made for Dana and for Charlie and for the other peeps a… Read More
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These are my snaps, snippets, sketches, scratchings, inklings, scribbles, experiments and assignments—some blah, some good, some brilliant—but all mine, and all protected by United States copyright laws.
2022-01-26 03:08
Just an aside: I'm researching a side of my family that lived through extraordinary difficulties and tragedies, in addition to their joys and triumphs.. Their graves are together in two row… Read More
2017-08-09 02:51
“Why did you hang this shirt on our birdfeeder?” said a nearby voice.
When I first sat down, there wasn’t a bird to be seen. Now all of a sudden, there were t… Read More
2017-05-16 15:42
I carry your hearts in my heart.
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2016-12-11 15:00
Don't take yourself so damned seriously. Read More
2016-12-11 14:51
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2016-12-11 14:42
2016-12-11 14:41
2016-12-11 14:32
A good time was had by all. Sort of. Almost.
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2016-11-14 13:09
2016-10-20 16:09
Sweetest Day Watercolor sketch
#Worldwatercolorgroup
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2016-10-20 00:59
Finding joy in the little things, like my button lamp. #worldwatercolorgroup
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2016-10-19 05:59
Finding joy in the little things, like homemade chocolate chip cookies, almost as good as homemade peanut butter kiss cookies. #worldwatercolorgroup
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2016-03-19 18:53
In the early seventies, when I lived in Tucson, Arizona, my tiny whitehaired grandmother, whom we grandchildren called Mom, came for a week-long vacation with a friend. They share… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Last year my sister gave me a milk frother for Christmas.
We don't live that way up here, I thought, not knowing that a year later, I would feel deprived if I didn't have steamed milk every… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
My sons and I spent two weeks in Kenya in 1992, on a school trip designed for middle school-aged students. By volunteering to chaperone, I was able to bring my fifth grader along with my se… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
― Keith Donohue
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2015-07-22 17:12
“That poor woman,” my husband says.
“Why?” I ask, looking toward the house we are passing.
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2015-07-22 17:12
“That poor woman,” my friend Penny says.
“What? Why?” I ask.
“She’s severely handicapped and can barely walk,” she said.
I looked over and&n&helli…Read More
2015-01-28 15:39
My husband and I have a deal. Whoever doesn't cook dinner gets to clean up. Last night, the following happened:
Setting: After roasting a chicken and serving it with glazed carrots, s… Read More
2014-04-23 17:49
What TL said:
If you really want to lose fat, build muscle and maintain optimum health, just eliminate all the white things from your diet. No sugar, no pasta, no bread, no rice, no p… Read More
2013-09-26 03:31
I have to walk down Memory Lane. So indulge me, and see if you like it.
My First Winter in Northern Michigan Read More
2013-08-12 14:06
Tomorrow my cast comes off, but today I am reading about elephants, zebras and bushbucks that look like white-tailed deer. (Love, Life, and Elephants by Dame Daphne Sheldrick)
I have to sta… Read More
2013-08-09 13:39
On July 29, I had extensive foot surgery, a major battle in my war against arthritis, which hopefully corrected a crunching, grinding bone-on-bone condition inside my foot. When all is said… Read More
2013-06-14 11:20
This is our living room lamp, sitting on my grandmother's table next to the tv. The Pittsburgh Pens got knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, my life must go on, so I drew it on a piece… Read More
2013-06-07 20:34
The writers around me get right to it. As soon as the seatbelt sign is turned off, computers snap open, fingers fly over the keys clicking, black characters fill the livid screens. Laptops… Read More
2013-03-13 14:17
I
didn’t usually fly first-class, but, since this was such a long flight, I couldn’t resist treating myself. Just this once, I thought. I studied the handsome-uptight-Polo-shir… Read More
2013-03-05 13:51
I know they're supposed to give a healthy structure to the day, but I just assume slough them off, like a coat that’s too heavy. The sheer bulk of it makes it impossible for me to easi… Read More
2012-12-26 09:40
How would I watercolor that tree, I wondered, gazing at our Christmas tree in the corner of the room, its branches filled with bright C7 bulbs, multi-colored mini-lights with white minis mix… Read More
2012-12-21 13:32
I'm sitting in the doctor's office waiting room next to a man who smells like he's been shut up in a dark, airless room for three days, chain-smoking filterless Camels. Determined to be poli… Read More
2012-10-01 05:17
“Don’t you think the last fifty pages will be the hardest to write?” TL asked. I had been working on my Masters in Creative Writing, plugging away to produce 150 pages of… Read More
2012-08-01 13:32
“Louise–Weasie we had always called her–is a real character. You’ll love her.”
“I thought you said she was a fruitcake,” her father interrupte… Read More
2012-07-23 10:54
"I don't want to bother you when you have so much going on," Brenda said. "You have a lot on your plate right now."
"Nonsense, I don't have that much going on," I said. "I can handle it, no… Read More
2012-07-20 11:44
Limited: At the Bear River Writer’s Conference, my first assignment was to write a page about "who I am, who I really am," as in what I wanted people to remember about me, and, i… Read More
2012-07-19 14:19
My cell phone buzzed until the very second I found my flash drive behind the headboard, wedged between my mattress and the wall, right next to the electric socket. Little things like that te… Read More
2012-07-12 04:23
Who are these valiant souls on paddle boards, rafts and jet skiis? The lake has barely begun to warm. Girls shriek, hold hands and count 1, 2, 3, under! I watch one couple wade in, water ni… Read More
2012-03-14 00:57
Dear Back Muscles,
I know you think you’re protecting my spine by getting all uptight and spazzy and everything. But really? I'm getting tired of your constant overreaction… Read More
2012-03-08 14:41
I had trouble finding these, so once I did, I thought I would put the links here and here, making it easier for the next time.
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2012-03-08 13:53
I wish I had written this:
Your father is the poem inside you when you wake up in the morning, the poem like a spine, shaping how you stand and sit, the poem that's with you on the toilet, a… Read More
2012-03-08 04:33
I have been staying in my father’s Naples apartment for a mere twenty-four hours and, when I walked in from my trip to the grocers, I felt as if I was walking through a war zone. The… Read More
2012-03-01 14:05
There's a reason it comes in like a lion.
The word 'March' comes from the Roman 'Martius'. This was originally the first month of the Roman calendar and was named after Mars, the god of war… Read More
2012-01-15 03:10
Sometimes I think there is something wrong with me. I mean, really, what kind of person loves Grey’s Anatomy re-runs so much that she feels she must hide that fact from her husband, w… Read More
2011-10-18 13:46
The sight took my breath away. I jammed on the brakes before making sure there was no one behind me, which, fortunately, there wasn’t. Finding a nearby driveway, I turned into it, back… Read More
2011-10-07 02:20
I shook myself awake, trying to leave the dream. My pillow stuck to my cheek, wet with tears. I had forgotten Sophie had died. And then, I remembered. But it was way too close, like it happe… Read More
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