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Maternal Superpowers

August 29, 2011 in families

You might recall my reminiscing about Saturday Mornings with my mother:  our weekly ritual wherein she would don her sequined cape and disco-pied-piper my sister and I into spit-shining the whole apartment from top to bottom. This was all well and good when I was ten, but today, my mother’s impending arrival after a two-year hiatus is downright paralyzing. I have torn apart every room in the house, painted and rearranged furniture. The place is literally upside-down. Why do I do this to myself, you might ask. Good question. Read the rest of this entry →

Maternal Superpowers

August 29, 2011 in families

You might recall my reminiscing about Saturday Mornings with my mother:  our weekly ritual wherein she would don her sequined cape and disco-pied-piper my sister and I into spit-shining the whole apartment from top to bottom. This was all well and good when I was ten, but today, my mother’s impending arrival after a two-year hiatus is downright paralyzing. I have torn apart every room in the house, painted and rearranged furniture. The place is literally upside-down. Why do I do this to myself, you might ask. Good question. Read the rest of this entry →

Maternal Superpowers

August 29, 2011 in families

You might recall my reminiscing about Saturday Mornings with my mother:  our weekly ritual wherein she would don her sequined cape and disco-pied-piper my sister and I into spit-shining the whole apartment from top to bottom. This was all well and good when I was ten, but today, my mother’s impending arrival after a two-year hiatus is downright paralyzing. I have torn apart every room in the house, painted and rearranged furniture. The place is literally upside-down. Why do I do this to myself, you might ask. Good question. Read the rest of this entry →

Maternal Superpowers

August 29, 2011 in families

You might recall my reminiscing about Saturday Mornings with my mother:  our weekly ritual wherein she would don her sequined cape and disco-pied-piper my sister and I into spit-shining the whole apartment from top to bottom. This was all well and good when I was ten, but today, my mother’s impending arrival after a two-year hiatus is downright paralyzing. I have torn apart every room in the house, painted and rearranged furniture. The place is literally upside-down. Why do I do this to myself, you might ask. Good question. Read the rest of this entry →

My Southern Jailhouse Wedding

June 21, 2011 in Personal

Today is my wedding anniversary.  Ten years down the line we had to get married.   Insurance purposes.  Utter bullshit, I thought.  We talked about it here and again, but were of the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mentality and were content with our life together.  After all, we had just lived through 9-11, been chased out of town by my in-laws, drove around the country with three kids living like gypsies, sold everything we owned and moved five times in the last couple of years.  If that didn’t break us, a piece of paper certainly didn’t much matter.

“How about the summer solstice? That’s a powerful day.  That’s a good day to get married.” I suggested.

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My Southern Jailhouse Wedding

June 21, 2011 in Personal

Today is my wedding anniversary.  Ten years down the line we had to get married.   Insurance purposes.  Utter bullshit, I thought.  We talked about it here and again, but were of the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mentality and were content with our life together.  After all, we had just lived through 9-11, been chased out of town by my in-laws, drove around the country with three kids living like gypsies, sold everything we owned and moved five times in the last couple of years.  If that didn’t break us, a piece of paper certainly didn’t much matter.

“How about the summer solstice? That’s a powerful day.  That’s a good day to get married.” I suggested.

Read the rest of this entry →

My Southern Jailhouse Wedding

June 21, 2011 in Personal

Today is my wedding anniversary.  Ten years down the line we had to get married.   Insurance purposes.  Utter bullshit, I thought.  We talked about it here and again, but were of the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mentality and were content with our life together.  After all, we had just lived through 9-11, been chased out of town by my in-laws, drove around the country with three kids living like gypsies, sold everything we owned and moved five times in the last couple of years.  If that didn’t break us, a piece of paper certainly didn’t much matter.

“How about the summer solstice? That’s a powerful day.  That’s a good day to get married.” I suggested.

Read the rest of this entry →

My Southern Jailhouse Wedding

June 21, 2011 in Personal

Today is my wedding anniversary.  Ten years down the line we had to get married.   Insurance purposes.  Utter bullshit, I thought.  We talked about it here and again, but were of the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” mentality and were content with our life together.  After all, we had just lived through 9-11, been chased out of town by my in-laws, drove around the country with three kids living like gypsies, sold everything we owned and moved five times in the last couple of years.  If that didn’t break us, a piece of paper certainly didn’t much matter.

“How about the summer solstice? That’s a powerful day.  That’s a good day to get married.” I suggested.

Read the rest of this entry →

encore

February 8, 2011 in Wordsmoker Poetry

those words on the window
vanish and reappear
an apparition veiled with breath
haunting repeat performances
on the curtain of droplets
racing across the glass
dancing erratically to the edge
silenced in a puddle