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The Kids Are Outside
July 1, 2012
It feels special to have had a childhood full of dirt. Two days ago when our area lost power during a storm of wind and rain, something strange happened. The rain stopped, the lights stayed off, and the kids… the kids went outside. There were bikes with kids riding them… kids walking down the street […]
Photofood, an homage.
April 28, 2012
My nieces, one of the sweet age of four and the other a terrifying age of 9 going on 16, are full of questions. There is one question, however, that I hear more often than the rest: Aunt Elizabeth, why are you taking a picture of your food? The question seems as absurd to me […]
#GoalsAccomplished
April 16, 2012
These days, I hesitate to declare my goals. The reason? Because the number of goal-lists I have cluttering my past far exceeds the number of those goals which I have actually accomplished. You can understand why, after nearly 20 years of this behavior, I’m starting to doubt this whole list making process. The good news […]
Yoga Diaries: The flute player
January 5, 2012
I’m laying flat on my back, arms to my side at the end of one of my very first yoga classes. The instructor rises to change the music. Her choice must mean it is time to quit working the body and start grooming the soul. For a lost amount of time, we hear the songs […]
Downward Facing Writer
December 5, 2011
Years of saying I want to “be healthy” and not ever getting all that healthy has allowed me to observe just how healthy it would be for me to one day get healthy. See, lack of results can be just as effective and inspiring as successful results; they just take a bigger chunk out of […]
the Creator and the Creation
November 27, 2011
(Click here to listen to a reading of: the Creator and the Creation) I once felt like a film buff. I went to film school with other film buffs and so, I was a film buff, too. Everything from the technical to the theoretical, I was swimming in cinema every day. I read about film, […]
Whiskey
November 21, 2011
I want to be the kind of girl that drinks whiskey, neat and slow. The budget of my Youth and culture of my Group led me into the vats of beer at a young age. It began with whatever was around; free preferred, but cheap would do. Cheap beer was always best inside something other […]
Writing through tragedy
November 20, 2011
I suppose I should read someone else’s advice about writing through tragedy. I’d like to write about it myself, but as it turns out, it’s not something I can do very well. Truthfully, it’s not something I ever want to do. I had my chance a few weeks ago, though I never asked for it, […]
April 15, 2013
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