• still learning the dance

    When the day began, yesterday, there were four possible employment possibilities for me – two I had interviewed for, and two interviews scheduled for the afternoon. By 4:45pm each one had passed by, kaput,…

  • unbelievably believable

    I’m with Annie – It’s a hard knock life. And still, rapping with Spenser offers heavy encouragement. Which Spenser-talk translates into something like, “Get your butt in gear, Dad.”

  • mama said there’d be days like these

    It came to me the other morning, on a walk, poor as I am, in need of burrito money, gas money, going to the movies money, insurance money, CD money, used book money, even…

  • ain’t it the truth

    “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” – Lester Bangs That pretty much says it, me showing up here Mondays through Fridays. On…

  • in the out door

    Saturday morning I glanced at the time on the microwave, 10:07, and I knew in my heart that if there were 138 hours in this Saturday it would not nearly be enough time to…

  • end of the week

    And after all this, here Friday morning, the heat wave winding down, the sky clearing back to blue, the fragrance and deadliness of wild fire smoke blowing east, my fingertips beginning the slow ache…

  • all this is that

    So, every time I hit ‘Publish’ here, and a today’s post flies into your home, it’s like the curtain going up. On the movie of me. And when “I do not think, therefore I…

  • brothers, and sons

    Not feeling great (physically), alone and broke, do not am(ing) all over the place, not a single idea for a Wednesday post, and this shows up. Cameron, on the left, driving his mother who…

  • entangled lines

    Two weeks ago, in a week of Girl Group posts, I offered up what I said is one of my all-time favorite lines in the (my) rocked and rolled world – “Wish I could…

  • so fetchable

    Sunday morning usual stuff – meditations, readings, coffees, Pages, exercises, yummy brekkie foods, and off on a way long walk, upon which I was a walking host to four kitties and five racoons. Then…