This is a text I sent to my girls on this, their first Father’s Day after their dad passed. After my second season in Yellowstone, I found myself back in Lafayette, Louisiana—close to Mimi and Step-Bob, working in the photo lab of a tiny camera store. I had this sweet little condo, cozy and charming, […]
Read More To My Daughters On Father’s Day(I apologize if your email has been cluttered with various versions of this. Technical and creative issues plagued the muse this morning) Her body is not young-but oh, it is radiant.Each wrinkle, a silver threadIn a tapestry woven with joy,Unhidden years well-spentin laughter’s warm embrace. Her scars tell pieces of her stories –Whispers of daring,leaps […]
Read More Aspiring CroneI’m a 61 year old woman. My life’s just getting good… because I’m creating it to be so! Over the last few months I’ve started house sitting, and it’s becoming an obsession. I get to travel to places I love, hang out with furry floofs and other critters, meet new people, drag my camera along… […]
Read More The Road Less BlossomedDear Winks, This is for you. I recently witnessed a powerful example of reconciliation that truly moved me—and it’s a story worth sharing. After everything that’s happened in recent years—the anger, the division, the hurt—one of my dear friends, (we’ll call her Winks) found herself grappling with a deep sense of betrayal. She discovered that […]
Read More Love In The Time Of TurmoilGood morning all! Every morning I rise between 5-5:30, (give or take). I perform my morning ablutions, take the dogs outside, fix coffee, have a breakfast cookie, (aka, a cookie… nothing redeemable about it… just sugar, butter, flour…). Then I take my desiccated pig thyroid, (thank you for you sacrifice, pig)🐷 settle onto the couch […]
Read More Silly String TheoryI woke up this morning with big fat hairy voice inside my head saying “You’re not good enough. You’re irrelevant. You’re not interesting. You have nothing to contribute to this world. You don’t matter. Why would anyone want to spend time with a blah like you?” Those kinds of thoughts were racing through my head, […]
Read More BedeviledI’ve not yet seen the Wicked movie, yet, but… I first read *Wicked* around 2000—give or take a year, maybe even earlier. I know it was well before the musical version hit Broadway. Since then, I’ve reread it at least three times. It’s goooood. Now, I absolutely adore the stage musical, too. As far as […]
Read More So Wicked!My daughter, Joie messaged me tonight saying how big and red the moon was. Now, you guys know that I’ve had a long lasting, never ending crush on the moon for as long as I can remember, so without even thinking about it I grabbed my camera and drove like a mad woman to Roseland […]
Read More Luna BellaGrammer nerds; sorry not sorry… I write like I talk! A few weeks back a friend of mine said that, because of my “positivity” I’m somehow vapid and uninformed, that I turn a blind eye to what’s going on in the world. I heard from him again this weekend. First, he apologized. He, his own […]
Read More A Complaint
Hello Butterfly! 