Well, I am not a real believer in the “Mercury in Retrograde” phenomenon, but I have had a run of bad luck over the past week or so. Not only did I manage to pull that gas nozzle right off the gas tank, but I also received a red-light notification in the mail (meaning there…
Month: September 2016
Repost: Converse All Stars and Me Back in 1962
When I was growing up, I had a problem buying shoes. My feet were small and wide, and in my little Texas town of 7,000 it was not always easy finding shoes that fit me in the local shoe stores. This meant at the very least traveling 25 miles over to Sherman, which had a…
Photo Essay of Labor Day in Ojai
Despite a trip to Urgent Care by me on Saturday for a bacterial infection, Ray and I managed to go up to Ojai this weekend for a family gathering. The doctor prescribed two forms of antibiotics and told me to rest. The kids, grandkids and Ray took good care of me so that I could…
Repost: Skin and Scars
My skin is a conduit of memory. One soft touch takes me back to my sweet high school boyfriend, the first male to every caress me; one harsh squeeze reminds me of one of my college boyfriends, the only person who ever physically hurt me; one stroke on my back connects me to my mother…
Repost: Interview with Author Dinty W. Moore about Flash Nonfiction
Right now, this second day of September, 2016, I am in the final two weeks of a Flash Nonfiction class I am teaching for Story Circle Network and the textbook we are using is the The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Flash NonFiction. I was guest editing for SheWrites back in 2012 for one…
Waiting for the Babies
Ray and I sitting in the parking lot of Glendale Adventist hospital waiting for daughter Sarah to bring us our two charges for tonight and part of tomorrow: Luna and Nico. Sarah has only tonight and tomorrow night left in a two week night shift stint for the rest of her residency. She is a…
20 Minutes a Day 