Large Syringe/Shorter Ghost
Nov 1, 2007 The little absurdities of life (or—another excuse not to sit down and face writing the last chapters of the latest book). Scene: my house with Ginna in it. Ginna (pointing at me): Max,...
View ArticleTreasure Gathering
One of my more profound failures as a female concerns shopping: I don’t like it. Put me in a mall and I mostly want to go home. Especially if it’s pants we’re shopping for. I tend to buy my clothes...
View Article~:: Tales of Salmon ::~
They always come swimmin’ right back up the river ~ And this is what we did this weekend. Have children around. Gin came home for a day. She dropped the dentist off to be Slick Rock Bike Guy and...
View Article~:: A Little Lapine Fun ::~
There are daring souls among the crafters who send a character they have made literally out into the wide world – traveling to places the maker, herself, may never see. Someone did it with a meerkat...
View Article~:: New Buddies ::~
Two weeks ago – almost – Donna Lohr flew all the way across the country to spend a few days with two crazy women: Rachel and me. There are plenty of people who are suspicious of relationships that are...
View Article~:: A Ghost Story ::~
A few years back, when I had no barn but was big as one, my mother came, as mothers often do when their children need them. It was October, and it had been a long nine months. The weather was finally...
View Article~:: All Hallows Eve ::~
Okay – I had a lot to say. I wanted to write about October (which I still will), and about Hallowe’en – (sneaking in the fact that I love the yellow moons and the black cats and the pumpkins and...
View Article~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~
Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here. But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out...
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