This weekend I finally invited some new friends over for Sunday Night Pizza, which meant: I got the rest of the art up on the walls, cleared off the table, took a lot of stuff to the garage and basement, rearranged the closets so as to be able to put away sewing machine and winter boots and spare umbrellas. I made pizza with red onions and red ( Read more... )

Drove home from renenet's on county highways, through unincorporated towns and the spiky emptiness of late-winter cropland, past barns with peeling paint and farmhouse yards muddy with snowmelt. The landscape here's all hills, the road unrolling between the fields, ribboning over little rivers, bending around still-frozen lakes. I thought about leaving ( Read more... )

Out into the misty wet half-dark, hat scarf headphones on.there's a war inside of me
Down three blocks and then left a block to the main street, past dark windows and lit windows and lovely white icicle lights and the big tacky multicolored bulbs of my childhood.don't get so uptight
don't get so uptight
The Norwegian Saguaro Cactus people have their ( Read more... )

Because I have the luxury of not being at work for most of Tuesday, I'll be spending the day volunteering - phonebanking with my union, mostly, but also working a couple of driver shifts for canvassers and probably picking up some Election Protection Project volunteers after the polls close ( Read more... )

This morning I went for a longer bike ride than I've made time for in a while: along the river, smooth as glass, reflecting trees and bright blue sky; across it and along the railroad tracks; up through the historic district; past a group of dignified white-haired ladies pacing their way from the retirement home to a nearby church. I suppose I ( Read more... )

When we turned the corner, we saw, scattered on the sidewalk, perhaps a dozen white origami cranes ( Read more... )