Cuts and Scrapes, Bruises and Tragedies
[Note: Right after I wrote the first draft of this, some friends had the tragedy of losing their daughter. Suddenly, everything I’d written seemed so dumb, and so this has been revised to honor my friends in their grief] What a busy summer! I don’t know if it is Mercury retrograde or just decompression from such […]
My Favorite Miracle
‘A Miracle!’ / That knocks me out –from Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” Several years ago, I dreamt that something extraordinary would happen when I had blue fingernails. Haha, dreams are so weird, right? Well, if you know me (and if you’re reading this blog, you likely do know me to some degree), you probably know […]
Where We’re Going
Seven years ago, Tom and I were in London and Cambridge, England, following the literal footsteps of Sylvia Plath. How I miss traveling! When I saw that “four” for how long Covid-19 would last (see a few posts back), I had hoped it was four weeks and then began to believe it was four months. […]
Dear Younger Self: Some Things I Know For Sure
It has been a busy week, with the Thanksgiving holiday, tarot jobs, a trip to Springfield, MO to see Tom’s band, and all sorts of fun complications which I’ll blame on astrology: Something went wrong with the sound on the first night of shows. An amplifier began popping so loudly my sister-in-law ducked, thinking there […]