I took a poetry collection to a café. I had an hour before attending an author reading, and was feeling particularly literary. I sat at the bar, ordered the least expensive glass of red wine, and chatted amiably with the tattooed woman bartender about what a find to meet this poet. The poet of […]
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Poetry Reading/Reading Poetry
Posted in Idiosyncracies, Music, Poetry, Time on June 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Love Languages – A Throwdown
Posted in Children, Cooking/Food & Wine, Doctors, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Psychology, Relationships, Television on May 27, 2013 | 1 Comment »
“Do you know what your love language is?” the pediatric podiatrist asked my son. While the doctor tended to the tenacious wart at the bottom of my son’s foot, he patiently explained the basic tenets of Love Language theory. That there is one type of love that each person seems to want the most, […]
Hier klicken (Click here)*
Posted in Film, Idiosyncracies, Internet, Writing on April 8, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Despite the numbers of comments caught by this site’s spam filters each day – thousands, according to the daily spam filter count – about 20 make it through. I cull through them, pulling out these internet weeds to make way for the tiny number of comments from my tiny number of readers to make their […]
The Poetry of Insomnia
Posted in Children, Existential, Insomnia, Midlife, Motherhood, Poetry on March 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, now that I’m in my second half of life, that sleep has gone the way of, well, wakefulness. I am awake far more in my bed than I am asleep.