G
and just like that.... actually, not just like that. She came out of denial at about 24 weeks, walked into what I call my living room (although it is an extension of a much larger space I have...
View Articlebuilding character
I am sadder than I have been for a while; since June perhaps, when I drove home from Aspen through the stained glass filter of tears....and wondered what delusional world I lived in.I go in to work...
View ArticleClik here to view.
snack size novels and cover art
If I hear one more dj at my local community radio station say " here's a new song by Bon EYE-ver. He's pretty good", I'm going to stab myself in the face. I did my last show on the same station...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cairn, Revisited
My cube farm temp job ended abruptly on Monday at 5:30, and I couldn't be happier. Gone is the swiping of a card to log my arrival, the white bread and partially hydrogenated peanut butter...
View ArticleClik here to view.
framework
“this would be cute… for your new lifestyle”My friend Ivy holds out a black fleece tunic with a smart cowl neckline and pockets. I peel it on over my leggings and boots. My face is the only thing of...
View Article"You'll notice a difference in your father... he doesn't remember where you live
...but his sense of humor is still good" I think I'll make this lovely piece part of my morning routine. Beautiful, moving and true. Every day really is a gift
View ArticleClik here to view.
the rest of the story
My uncle Brenning was featured in an article on CNN.com today I read the story, having heard snippets told or written by my father and uncle, but it still brought a flush to my face and...
View Articlethe woman in the window
I walk downtown at night, ushered by winter's full moon, taking one last bow before the eclipseI walk downtown on the straight line of sidewalk. I walk towards the light, but there are several blocks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
from Russia with love. cash only
Without giving it a great deal of thought, I shelled out way too much cash for a front row seat at the Moscow Ballet's Russian Nutcracker tonightIt is so rare that national touring companies of...
View ArticleRADIOlogy
last night's playlist It’s eerie to leave the station after midnight, but it also feels natural to do so. The thin layer of ice creeping across my windshield; the trains grouping and departing a few...
View Articlethe slipping
My dad doesn't remember his trip to the ER and two days in Mercy Medical Center beginning Christmas Day. I think in some twisted way, this is the beauty of dementia. The mind wipes the slate clean....
View ArticleClik here to view.
markup
I started a six-week writing workshop today.Workshop / Woodshedsame diffI’m going to get my ass kickedIf I don’t resurface by early Marchsomeone come and get me
View Articlethis is not my stop
I met Luke Reynolds a few years ago, through someone who'll remain nameless, as it is too painful to type the letters now. I'm still in disbelief and grief over the news about our mutual friend. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible
I've leased an apartment in the suburbs outside of Boulder, which is kind of a suburb itself, in the quirkiest sense. I scoured Craigslist for days, only to find student slums at Manhattan prices;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
jam
now I remember what a traffic jam looks like. I clocked 30 minutes at 0 miles per hour coming home tonight. Do the math. When there is a steady rain on the front range, everyone drives like they...
View Articlenightswimming
It's free movie night in the community park just down the hill from my pod in the foothills. I can hear it from the pool where I come for night swims before going to bed. The sound is full-on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saving up
Up Sunshine Canyon.... down Four Mile Where the roads have names like "Poorman" and "Lickskillet", it's a good idea not to take a wrong turn. I drove 10 uphill, switchback and corrugated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
coming unstuck
I have not been able to write for almost a year now. I tried blaming it on a move to a place that is not home, but has the potential to be so if I can just toss some shit out of the way and settle....
View ArticleClik here to view.
with no particular place to go
I interviewed for an internal job transfer today. The downtown Denver campus of the University would be a nice change from what used to be a place I loved. I think I'll love it again when I don't...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Valves
The tech grew more frustrated as she tried repeatedly to insert the IV needle. "As we get older, the veins have more valves" she explained. I nodded in sympathy and asked her if my being there and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
come ye back...
I was walking around the lake on the border of my neighborhood when my daddy passed away this evening in St. Louis. It was dusk. A fish flopped. Rings of fish-flop splash spread out on the placid...
View Article40 watts
The night bus feels better somehow. I caught it home after stopping for the happy hour special at my favorite creperie downtown. It's a pretend-Paris, with painted tablecloths, 40 watt bulbs...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anchored
A chapter a day. I cherish my 25 minute ride into work and the non-glamour of mass transit to bring me back to reading as an essential nutrient. I hadn't given up reading entirely, but found no time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
good night and good luck
I stopped writing here for a number of reasons; all lame. I moved back into the city, to a sweet building buried in ivy and one-hundred years of talking walls. It's a repeat, but a completely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
incense-itive
the incense they burn at the cathedral where I go to Sunday evening hippie church catches in my throat and makes my sinuses hurt, but I deal with it. It's part of the accoutrements that make this...
View Article
