Like most people who’ve spent a good deal of time entertaining themselves, my uses of language can tend toward the idiosyncratic and ‘inside.’
New song: “Screaming Soccer Dad”
In the great karmic balance of the universe, my over-the-top pride in avoiding all team sports as an adolescent came back to bite me, as an adult, with the installation of an equally over-the-top soccer field (with stadium lights!) in the lot just behind our back fence. Since the living room and bedroom windows look […]
The not-supposed-tos
You’re not supposed to think of yourself as a writer. Think of yourself as a journalist or a content creator or as any other marketable term. Writer? Nobody knows what that is. Nobody thinks it’s a real thing that an adult person should be. We’re all writers, right? We all write. What makes you think […]
New song: “Gone Too Soon”
A couple months ago, our neighborhood experienced one of those sudden, shocking losses that quietly rattle one’s sense of order and justice. A bright, free-spirited young woman gone well before her time – and not in some big, cataclysmic way that makes headlines all about town, but in the simpler way of ‘here one day, […]
Better in writing
I’m better in writing, where I can set my own pace and pursue my own turns of mind without anxiety or distraction. Where the only expectations are those established within the work itself, not those pressing in from the world outside. In writing, I make sense and follow my own internal logic. In the world, […]
New song: “This Old Neighborhood”
Here’s a song about settling into one of those sleepy old neighborhoods where many of the inhabitants are still original. And then, with the passage of time, watching it turn over and become something new. If you catch it right on the cusp, you don’t even have to be there that long to see the […]
Pantyhose breakdown
That summer, we were laying the groundwork for Grandma’s move from Napa to Roseville. Rental van companies were being researched and compared. Furniture was being measured. Tonnage of rooms was being guesstimated. Boxes were being collected, and early efforts made at packing up certain non-essential items that could make the trip ahead of the rest. […]