I recently purchased a new mattress and bedframe. The above sentence is an inadequate summary of a two-day period full of very first-world problems that wore me out, infuriated me, and, in hindsight, was probably quite funny to anyone who … Continue reading The Mattress Saga
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The poem below has been sitting on my computer for a year, and I decided it was finally time to let it go. I wasn’t tweaking it and I didn’t want to risk messing up the meter I’d established if … Continue reading Experiments in Writing – Epic Poetry
On pause as I visit family this week. More next Friday. Continue reading Hiatus
On my back I see the elite of the forest, a select scattering of eye-catching sun-dappled green on blue, supported beneath by dark, anonymous branches. I sit up and my view scrolls to see branches merge into trunks overshadowed by … Continue reading Metaphor
My plan over Labor Day weekend was to buckle down and use the three-day weekend’s predicted nice weather to build some shelves from scratch. They are desperately needed to house my husband’s growing miniature painting hobby. I’ve had the plans … Continue reading Labor Day Weekend
It’s raining outside. The clouds are low and gray, and it’s raining outside. The shades are up, and I stare at the window rather than my computer. I haven’t moved from my seat in hours. It’s raining outside, but I’d … Continue reading Struggle
As the evening’s protective cloud cover retreats over the horizon in the face of an approaching cold front marching resolutely forward, and as the rising sun’s first rays claw their way over a bluff to offer tender comfort to their … Continue reading Mirror
A solitary yellow hotel matchbook lies on a snow-dusted sidewalk, its flimsy wooden matches exposed to the overcast sky. Why is it here? Did an overworked graduate student, snatching a smoke as they hurried to class, drop it, too distracted … Continue reading Cold
Today, as I was working in my home office, I shut off my music, my podcasts to keep me company, my background YouTube videos, and I opened my window. I heard dogs barking in distant backyards; trucks unnecessarily accelerating and … Continue reading Calm
Staring Out A Window 