So I have been sitting here, in front of the computer, for a very long time. I have a lot of new material that I have written over the last two days — due to my recent attendance at creative writing workshops. I’ve been debating on whether or not to post what I’m writing. I [...]

This blog makes me cry almost every time I read it. Or, at least get teary-eyed. Her life reads like a novel, and an interesting one at that. The first time I visited, I saw that she and her husband had been in a plane crash, but I wasn’t sure when it happened. Just going [...]

This picture is from the fair - the deal was to pose with a message on one of these boards, and then after you’d get a free tote bag! Yay for reusing stuff.
I took the bandage off of my tattoo…

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening [...]