Over there…

September 17, 2009

I’m excited to tell you that today you can find me over at Blog Nosh Magazine! They’re featuring one of my favorite posts, and I’m so honored to find myself in such wonderful company there. If you don’t read or subscribe to Blog Nosh yet, you’re missing out on fantastic writing and so much interesting […]

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The last sweetness

September 15, 2009

Yesterday, at the end of a short nap, I had a dream that I was driving on a street, somewhere else, somewhere the grass was green and the leaves had taken on the vibrant colors of the new season. When I pulled up to the curb and rolled down the window, the air was full […]

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Tunnel

September 8, 2009

The bedroom. Four o’clock sunlight reaches through the blinds and slants like cursive across the wall. I could see it if I open my eyes. I lie there, two fists full of blanket tucked under my chin, holding on to these cotton fibers like they’re the only true thing I know. As though what I […]

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Turning

September 1, 2009

Last winter, my sister and my kids and I visited Kitt Peak Observatory, not far from Tucson. I remember something that the observatory guide said that night, “When we look at the sky, we’re looking at the past.” That one sentence has clung to me for all these months. I know it’s a scientific explanation […]

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The quiet hallway

August 18, 2009

So, this is my 300th post. Sorry, no balloons or cupcakes (though cupcakes are always welcome…If anyone needs my address, let me know.) There’s nothing special about that number, nothing it can hold over 299 or 301. And it’s taken me longer to get here than most, since I don’t post so often, but it […]

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Sealed

August 3, 2009

Earlier today, you would have found me cross-legged on Elle’s bedroom floor, folding the top flaps of a box together with one hand, holding packing tape in the other. Sealing away for a few weeks some of the odds and ends that string together the life of an eight year old girl. As I ran […]

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The leaving

July 23, 2009

We’re getting ready to move soon, and I’m calling on my usual method of dealing with impending loss or separation: denial. I can’t think about saying goodbye to my friends, so I sort through other, smaller goodbyes ahead of that. Not to soften those moments (impossible), but to give them the whole stage when it’s […]

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Dry heat, my…

July 13, 2009

Hey look, this place is still here…After this many days, I feel like I should come in with a feather duster and a vacuum. I don’t know what to tell you, except that I’ve been busy writing songs, co-writing songs, and having the time of my life doing it. It still feels strange at times. […]

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Promise

July 3, 2009

Peonies. Because this place could use something bright. Something unabashed and splashy and bold. Something pretty and soft, when all I see out the window is desert, brown. And the greedy clouds that hold onto their rain even when they crowd the sky each afternoon, as they often do throughout monsoon season (may they let […]

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Weeds

June 29, 2009

Our garden was enormous. Not the kind of childhood-enormous that turns out to look small when you grow up. It was a monster of a garden. And my sister and I spent most of  each summer working in it. The garden existed as a significant food source for our family and for my step-grandparents, who […]

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