It’s not on the stands yet, but another of the motherhood/fairy stories I’ve been working for the past little bit (uh, doesn’t she mean the past five years?) will be in the Fall, 2009 issue of Brain, Child. I love Brain, Child. And not just because they publish fiction along with personal essays and nonfictionContinue reading “The Written Word”
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Cloudy Weather
The sunflowers Elder Girleen planted along our side fence have grown as high as an elephant’s eye.* The fig that was a mere sprout two years ago now obscures one of the dining room windows, creating a curtain that only lets in filtered green vegetable light. If the squirrels don’t best us, we willContinue reading “Cloudy Weather”
Where Things Started
Yesterday, I had exactly 27.5 minutes between dropping Younger Girleen off at her creative movement class* and having to pick her back up again and because I no longer smoke, and because it’s mom anathema to do so, and because I couldn’t use up those minutes with a contemplative cigarette and cup of coffee, IContinue reading “Where Things Started”
Rolling in Clover; or Luck, and Where to Find it
The more common variant of the saying being like pigs in clover — but let’s not go that far. But if I had some magic elixir bottled up that could whisk me back to childhood, it would consist of a distillation, an inhalation of the following: …The scent of the pinpoint-sized white flowers of aContinue reading “Rolling in Clover; or Luck, and Where to Find it”
