Zoomed outta casa-crazy before 8, and did sane-ifying things ( Read more... )

that staying alone overnight at my parents' house - the house I grew up in - to care for their dogs and have a hot tub - with luxurious Chinese carpets and 3 foot wide tv screen in their BEDroom, with panoramic views and fog wafting over the moonlit hillside garden and slowly blocking out the stars, with pictures of my not-very-long dead ( Read more... )

So, yesterday my Grandad died. Following my Granny, his wife (of 64 years tomorrow), by less than 4 weeks. My Dad's calling him the last great romantic. My Mom's mostly just crying a lot ( Read more... )

When a frog jumped onto my meditation pillow at the silent retreat last week, I knew my grandmother was dead ( Read more... )

Uncle Jangly got my granny a pink pig when we went out to eat at haute local organic restaurant Henrietta's Kitchen in Harvard Square. If you've read the book, yes, the pig is _that_ Henrietta ( Read more... )

disclaimer: Feeelig kinda bitchy and sad when I wrote this. ymmv ( Read more... )

In oakland, it's easy to skip. There's fireworks, but less in my neighborhood than for chinese new year ( Read more... )

This morning home was the lover's arms I left to come here. Sunlight streaming through a transparent window, his weight warm behind me, the dry, soft lips against my neck, biceps and shoulders clasping me tight as I stretch and wiggle awake. And he reminded me, with sunlight on my face, that I told him I loved him last night. Home is the bed where ( Read more... )

OK. It's not funny.

Second draft. Constructive feedback extremely welcome...end feels cheesy/overly dramatic, but am a tired writing cub and creativity has stopped. Will revise tomorrow. Want working draft by Wed.

Also welcome: title suggestions.

( memoir for sharing with my students )

Well, there may be other sincere forms of flattery. A very generous, focused session of lovin' or cuddlin' or even deep listenin' all are sincere forms of flattery. But today I'm imitating -- and it's sincere.

Thanks to dbs62 for taking a writing class and telling me about her assignment and when I whined about having writing-class-envy and then got ( Read more... )