It's 9:30 am, and already it's one of those days ( Read more... )

A mouse has eaten half of my silicon garlic peeler. I am making Vegan (really!) Hoppin' John ala Mckennl and Msviolaceous. Sadly, when it called for a dark beer, the only one I could think of was the 8 month old ones that have been in the cooler on my back porch since last July and just today I put them in the GIANT garbage can and loaded that in the back of my truck ( Read more... )

• Paper towel remants
• Glass shards
• 1/4 drill bit

To: Mom Xtink, Pop Xtink ( Read more... )

Lying on my side in my bed, in my newly painted bedroom, I look into the small bathroom that must have once been a closet. The wall is a soothing, dark periwinkle blue, the exact color of the long purple shadows on the snow in the picture of Thorn and Frost leaping through the 24 inches that fell the January I moved to Charlottesville. The picture ( Read more... )

Half the time, recently, I want to just go lie down in the middle of a field and look at the sky until the grass grows over me and I become part of the ground, just there watching the stars at night and the mist in the morning and the scudding of grey and blue during the day ( Read more... )