Sometimes song…
Every night here, in the swirling darkness of just before dreams, we curl together. His small soft cheek pressed against my heart, song rising up like an offering into the velvet of night. Here, every night, we reclaim each other from the day, his small fingers exploring my face, my arms wrapped tightly around his […]
A weekend in Quebec
Sinking into the plush down of a king sized bed. Chocolates on the pillow. Bright green apples in a black ceramic bowl on the end table. Lattes in the morning in white cups with saucers, firelight, flaky croissants and tall slender glasses of orange juice.
Walking cobblestone streets in the icy cold. Like a family of […]
Tomorrow, my birthday
Tomorrow is my birthday. 29, and I think I look old this year.
You spend all your late teens and early twenties wishing you were older, and then suddenly, without realizing it you’ve slipped to the other side, where you consider getting carded a complement, and for some reason you can’t get the fact out […]
Small things I’m grateful for.
A flock of clouds, their underbellies pink and gold, just before sunset.
Running hard at the gym, just over 8 minute miles.
Doing 25 push ups in a row.
Rearranging furniture in my classroom, so the sun slants just so in the morning and the picture books are easier to browse through.
Getting a note from a kid saying, […]
Morning writing
(Maple syrup on snow.)
Golden light fills my studio, the first of the morning. The sun, just up, climbs the rungs of the trees. Its smooth white disc of light is etched with a crosshatching of twigs, snow dusted and dark. Last night I made plans to wake up and write for an hour while the […]
23 Months
Dear Bean,
The sentences have begun. Verbs strung together with prepositions and nouns; laughter punctuating the funny parts.
In the bath tonight, the water up past your frog belly, and your sandy hair flecked with droplets, you pulled a pair of your summer sunglasses connected by an elastic band up around your legs. “Like pulling underwear […]
Unrelated bits & pieces
* I drove back from the ophthalmologist (a random unidentifiable pain & redness in my eyes prompted the visit) tonight, and it was the most disorienting and sweaty palmed trip ever. Headlights in dilated eyes: not fun. Now I have blurry vision and the feeling of vertigo whenever I look at anything up close. But […]
Wanting to dream
My eyes ache tonight, from crying and laughing both, and I’m on the verge of being sick. I spent the weekend away with a close friend, talking over sushi and Japanese beer, about the way things really are. How everything in my life right now is like a delicate broken china cup, held together with […]
Hi. Already.
Hello, Internets !
I haven’t checked my stats in so long, I believe I’ve forgotten my passwords. But I know that there are many cool people out there who come here, and some of you write me absolutely awesome emails, or send me lovely chocolate covered figs, or gorgeous photos, or cds with amazing girly housewarming […]
Little things
Celebrating little things: potty training (thank you for all the tips!), my first art show (it’s up, and my pieces look beautiful!), finally finding a baby sitter, starting a clay class with DH (the past two weeks have been so hopeful, so tenuously joyous, so tender), and really pretty underwear.
Also this: planning to […]