Saying no has never been easy for me. When it comes to avoidance of what I need for myself, I’m a yes girl. Another slice of pie? Yes, please. Want to blow off class and go to the mall? Yes, I sure do! Can you watch my dog for the day? Okay, no problem. Can you come help […]
Archives for November 2015
The List Making Gene
It’s In My Blood I come from a long line of list makers. My dad was a formidable list maker, his lefty scribbles were often found throughout our house, in every room, on napkins and little sheets paper, from the bathrooms to his workshop downstairs. We would find them taped and tacked everywhere. My grandparents were list […]
Say A Little Prayer
Smell fire, fire burning and moss, damp and earthy a soft, melancholy hush of foggy, silvery morning dew cracking, crunching, those stale branches, creaking, snapping, bare, barren, desolate trees wet, muddy, slimy leaves, slipping, then dry again, feathered needles falling, to blanket the path. Asters, Goldenrod, Sedum drying, clipping the hardy’s back, and pruning the smoke bush, […]