Friday, November 28, 2008
Finally it’s beginning to feel like Fall- though short-lived as it is, the leaves everywhere are golden, flame-colored, russet and scarlet. Perhaps not as dramatically so as in other places, but I for one am pleased. I would really rather the leaves stay just as they are through the winter, however. I am not prepared [...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
On our second day in the city by the sea, we unearthed a curious creature curled up in a tree-stump. Bright dark eyes and nose a-twitch, glossy curls and black-orchid scented.. Peekaboo. We were able to lure her out with promises of pastry and exotic confections from Crixa Cakes… It was a regular smorgasbord of [...]
I was Salomé for Halloween this year, as in Dance of the Seven Veils, daughter of Herodias, and all that. I suppose I oughtn’t have been surprised at how many people I met had no idea who Salomé was.. All obscure biblical references aside- I mean, really? The favorite femme fatale of the fin-de-siècle! “In [...]
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I was saddened to hear that Studs Terkel died on Halloween. He was an amazing man, whom I had the honor of meeting a couple of years ago. We went to visit him at his house in Chicago on Thanksgiving morning. It was bitter cold and snow was on the ground, too bright- it gave [...]
Dog-days, my friends- where the storms tease us, unfurling bruised capes behind them as they hurry off to other counties- snubbing our parched and pathetic orchards. Drought didn’t mean nothing to me before I grew what I ate. We need several days of good soaking, and soon! If you’ve got rain, send some my way [...]
Texan summertime truly encourages innovation in the realms of refreshment and distraction- Anything to take your mind off your parched throat, and the rivulets of sweat dripping down every limb.. Thus, fancy sodas, frivolous frocks, and every night a cabaret, a soiree, a show! This Thursday (technically speaking, today) I will be joining the inimitable [...]
Roasting ducks and painted ladies. I had not visited San Francisco in twenty-one years. Not since I was seven and I went with my grandparents who lived in Los Angeles. I remember hills and pretty houses, yes. We went to my cousin Polly’s wedding and I was the flower-girl. I was running in the woods [...]
Summer is here, undeniably flown in on the crests of so many heavenly thunderstorms. Eerie half-light, the air thick and moist- my hair hangs lank and heavy down my spine and late nights reign again: drinking black tea and listening to Horses over and over (with virgin ears, oh!) “horses, horses, horses Coming in in [...]
Mother’s Day is historically hard in general, for anyone whose mother is dead. It just feels like a holiday designed to remind you of an absence, if that’s the case- it is in mine. I know a lot of people assume it to be another cheapened, schmalzy Hallmark holiday- invented to sell crappy cards and [...]
Sunday, December 31, 2006
At the turning of the year, when so much has changed- my life so transformed, so altered by tumult and blessing simultaneously- I am galvanized by it, and yet with scant few moments of respite in which to reflect or take stock, to recount the moments or meanings.. No time to shuffle the cards, or [...]
