A while back, I attended a house concert that proved to be an unexpected delight. The evening was a perfect combination of youth, beauty, music, a glass of unexceptional red wine (as far as I can tell, large pot-luck events seem to yield an abundance of unexceptional wines, and the one I contributed was no […]
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Musical Interlude
Posted in Beauty, Friendship, Midlife, Music, Poetry, Women, Youth on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Time Off
Posted in Books, Cooking/Food & Wine, Fantasies, Idiosyncracies, Relaxation, Shopping, Television on May 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s amazing how difficult it is for me to do nothing. Lay on a chaise lounge for hours in the sun. Sit looking out over the water. Who are the people who are so relaxed that they fall asleep at the beach? For that matter, people who fall asleep any time after they’ve been up?
Florence and George
Posted in Country Music, Death/Loss/Grief, Family, Grandparents, Music on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Write this down, take a little note To remind you in case you didn’t know Tell yourself I love you and I don’t want you to go Write this down.” -George Strait, 1999 I heard this George Strait song on the radio, and it brought my Grandma Florence back to me. I could almost […]
Poem for an Old Chum
Posted in Friendship, Poetry, Reminiscences, Writing on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Asked to write in verse To make long thoughts terse Prose is my genre now Literary essays of how . . . How I imagine How I hope How I dream How I regret How I see within and among and between the lines (to be exact). I’m afraid of poetry, turns out. Early efforts […]