Image by phr3qu3ncy via Flickr A Blogging Retrospective How I got from Point A to Point Zto … what was the point? My uprooting and eventual flotsam status in the deep end of the unemployment sea began soon after I left my job of nine plus years at a mommy magazine from which I needed… Continue reading
Date Archives → June 2011
Perimeno Menace, Not to Be Confused with Jose Jimenez
From the estrogen files … archived but not forgotten. Anyone for a Perimenopausal Cocktail? (Originally posted Friday, Oct 30, 2009) Time to smash the rose-colored glasses. Damn it! I’m moody. This gloomy weather and the gray drippy sky doesn’t help. I want to be five years old again, find a mud puddle, jump in it,… Continue reading
Totally Retro-spective!
Image via Wikipedia When I started blogging two plus years ago, I had zero readers but that was irrelevant. Having an outlet to keep me sane was my prime directive. Earthly writing also kept me sane but required at least 5,000 words, the typical length of a short story, my chosen literary genre. Whereas, blog… Continue reading
Random Thoughts: Land of Lost Moments
Image via Wikipedia Poetry Land of Lost Moments I hold the answer in my hand held tight in a fist.Inside it, I carry the weight of years lost in quiet introspection.Dreams discarded,like tufts of dead grass tossed on the side of the road,laying in a pile that grows higher every day,now too unwieldy to… Continue reading
Kamikaze Saki Shots!
Haiku! Gesundheit! Forget the sneeze. It’s a red herring. Focus on my mouth. Saki shots whiz across the table. The chef fires the salvo from the other side. Then, everybody starts to count. I made it to 27… Before my throat burned and my mouth locked down. Saki blocked, with no place to go. It… Continue reading
Old Moldy Post – Stuff Gets Stuck In My Head and Grows There.
Image via Wikipedia Found this buried in the back of my blog. Next Exit Past Asylum Street. On the road, Mom, Dad, and son head to college admissions. We’re watching all the signs. Just passed Asylum Street. A warning. On the shoulder, a discarded sneaker left standing. Farther down the road, another sneaker on its… Continue reading
Two-Year Blogiversary Head Cleaning
Image via Wikipedia Airing My Thoughts. Two years of windy words waft through the blogosphere. Losing altitude, accelerating toward earth, cyber air whooshes through my window screen. Cold air slams hot, as parallel universes collide. A rogue gust of wind rips the screen from the frame, whacking the side of my head. I pass out… Continue reading