Category Archives: REALITY

Great.  I get to spend the next few days going over an inch of paperwork loaded with bogus figures.  All different from the last two sets of bogus figures for the same estate project. Continue reading →

Beyond middle age, reading literature, trying to write, to change careers, directions, finding life past shaking fingers in your face. Clay class.  Giving up on bowls while they’re still three-quarters inch thick and squat.  And safe.  Disregarding directions and making … Continue reading →

…at the feeder right outside my kitchen window, but of course, he wouldn’t come back to have his picture taken and my arms got tired.  The second I closed the screen he returned. However, it’s also a photo of my … Continue reading →

My husband is quick-witted and has a very dry sense of humor.  Sometimes he just makes me laugh out loud. Lazy Sunday, me writing on the laptop, him settled in his leather chair, remote in hand.  "Any races on?" he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Never ‘fore I’ve wished so much to be a man. As now, as gleaming copper pipes are severed. Levers pulled to halt the flow of sparkling waterfrom the well in the good earth. And coffee perks invitingly,aromas wafting Temptress of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Life makes room for dreams though difficult it makes its path for dreams are precious and must prove themselves to be well worth the passage. And sometimes dreams are touched by the little gracelessness of reality prowling around perimeters of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In the middle of a post on Borges I watch TV fascinated, completely enthralled by two dancers, hopefuls on So You Think You Can Dance.  Hok is a hummingbird, Jaimie a flower, in a routine of such beauty I look … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Creativity grinds to a halt.  Wants and desires and interest pale beneath the necessary. I must clean the cellar for the plumbers coming Saturday to replace all copper pipes. Tired, sweaty, aching from the motion of the hoe or rather … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It started out with Willie two weeks ago, that this’ll be the last time I see him feeling.  Since then, I’ve seen all my in-laws at a graduation party, Gus’ family, Neha, Betty, my neighbor’s daughter and the girls, heard … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Spent more time in the crowds and with good folk this past week and a half than I’ve managed to avoid for many months. Full house at the concert and even though I went alone I made two temporary friends … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is no God, I say and the words sit there tasting bitter on my tongue, like the gasoline of the wayward jalapeno.  This little purgatory I allow myself for faith is deeply set. Continue reading →

Horrible headache from early morning on, escalating despite any pills, actions, assistance I sought.  Only reading, losing myself in someone’s story brought temporary bouts of relief.  Since dawn, dressed for gardening but doing no more than taking brief  sittings and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The most wonderful storm bellows over our heads; Jim in the house, me in my shop.  A driveway away after seventeen years clinging through thunder and jiggers of lightning that hits oh! Just behind me! as I stand at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of them weeks when it comes at you from all directions and none of it nice.  Baby birds as big as their papas chirp at the feeder to be mouth-to-mouth fed.  Same size they are, but somehow rounder and … Continue reading → Continue reading →