I have a friend I rarely speak to. We used to work together before I moved away but time and distance have caused us to lose touch. There is the occasional social media tag or brief text to check in but they have become fewer and further between. Today while sitting at a red light on my way home from the grocery store, I spotted an election sign for a candidate I had not heard of who shared his last name. I hastily snapped a picture thinking he would get a kick out of it and planed to send it … Continue reading Connection

My animals got the blame today. For getting on counters and whining at doors. For pacing under window sills and scratching at walls. For yowling and barking and making a fuss. For wanting to go outside the minute they were let back in. I shooed them all away. Ordered them to lie in corners and be quiet. Blamed the pounding in my head on their relentless noise and frantic motion. Until I spied him from the corner of my eye. A flurry of movement stopped in its tracks the moment it sensed me looking. Scurrying up and down the crepe … Continue reading Trouble Maker

The world seems off kilter these days so the children have sent us a reminder. A reminder that like bricks in a wall, the squares on the calendar are ours to fill in and color however we choose. The vibes we put out into the world come back to us, so we should try, according to the children, to make them good. Continue reading Good Vibes

I retraced my steps today. Over the bridge and across the causeway to the kingdom only days ago ruled by the King Tide. The tide has receded and relinquished its claim to solid ground. Has given back, for now, what it so hastily overtook. It is a dance Nature is all too familiar with. Water charges forward and courts Land in a Tango. Land pushes back and counters with a Samba. A truce is met in the form of a Cha-Cha. Ebb, Flow; Cha Cha Cha; High, Low, Cha Cha Cha; Give, Take, Cha Cha Cha….repeat, repeat, repeat. A truce … Continue reading Dance With Me

The flawless blue sky was marred by unpredicted clouds. The lines beneath grew more tense and failed to communicate the magnitude of the storm rolling in Continue reading Blue Skies

They were drawn to the water I suppose. Guided by a primal part of themselves longing to return to the sea, I imagine they were helpless against the pull of the tide and their hearts. They barely had time, I muse to myself, to cast the bikes aside before their land bound bodies betrayed evolution. Creating their own mythology, they traded skin for scales and feet for fins. Took a last deep breath as they broke the surface, held it as they dove deep, panic giving way to peace as they felt their ears pop; their gills come in, and … Continue reading Growing Gills

Piles have started to form. On the floor and the counter and the kitchen table. I am deciding how to organize the stories on the shelves as I (finally) unpack the boxes and boxes and boxes of books. By genre? By author? By size and heft? Should I give color blocking a try like the fancy people suggest? As I attempt to decide, I touch each book. Recall the memories of the ones I have read; a touchstone to worlds I have visited once, memories fuzzy like a half forgotten dream, the connection still strong and real. I feel the … Continue reading If Bricks Were Books and Words Were a Wall…..