Category Archives: REALITY

I’m not exactly sure how it came about, for what I faced should have me in a different frame of mind.  Not melancholic, nor living for the day, but rather single-focused on a road ahead. I’m not afraid, and yet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Worse than that; blinders on. To all that’s going on around me.  A free day today, no extra reading, no framing, no cleaning driveways from the snow, no class, no grumpy father-in-law for dinner, and yet there are several things … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Melissa Etheridge singing the great Janis Joplin’s "Another Little Piece of My Heart" on an awards show clip on Dateline tonight.  Etheridge is bald, effects of chemotherapy.  She discusses all of it, her arm around her wife in their living … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Four times the first robin of spring today, there, at the end of my husband’s index finger.  I follow his pointing there, there, there and there–no, it’s not the same one, see! Well, neato.  I see the spring trends are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Winter is back.  I open the shop, turn on the heat and lights, take a sip from yesterday’s coffee cup.  And almost break my teeth.  Just a thin sip unfrozen at the top of a half-full mug fooled me, then … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Question:  Can you really eat a Hostess chocolate cupcake in only two bites? Answer:  Yes, though it is not advisable to do so.  A love of chocolate, a random craving for something ridiculously sweet, and some bitter frustration are usually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The morning creeps up on me with whispers of chances, tempting and simple delights.  By day end I’m jaded, weary and lost, and sleep till the dawn comes again. Continue reading →

I don’t care what the scientific logic be, the sky is saturated with color from absorbing the prior day’s rain. But logically, it may be said that it would fade, be watered down to pale, or just the opposite, darken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Valentine’s Day was normal.  I got my dark chocolate covered cognac, and he got an apple pie.  With which I struggled because they really didn’t have great pie apples this time of year.  And the crust was odd, requiring no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I sit in the campus library reading.  Research and reading.  Sometimes I’ll wander over to the computers, but they are alien, do not know my favorites, do not respond with ah, Susan, there you are. And they are sated and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am awakened with a kiss and the news that the Valentine’s Bunny has been there during the night.  "Hurry!  Hurry!" he says, "He’s left something and I think it’s for you!"  Barely awake, bouncing off walls, down the hallway … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Golden yellow air and bright white flakes of snow, reluctantly they fall, confused by sunshine and so scatter aimlessly about. Continue reading →

A mix of chickadees, titmice, sparrows and bluejays.  The Cardinals show up.  But early morning is no longer the white quiet of winter, the cheeps and chirps and trills precede their coming to the feeder.  They sense the spring and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

While I haven’t been writing as much here lately, I indeed have been writing up a storm.  Most of it is in short story form, and the rest is in Learning to Spin, my Creative Writing journal.  I’m on a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The wind is tearing around the house tonight.  Brash and bold in playing with the earth.  Yet I’ve not the heart to shush it, as with a naughty favored child.  But laugh along.  For abandonment and freedom is contagious, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →