Getting cheated feels like Missing the first step at the top of the stairs foot hovering over air, heart thumping, pain awaiting. How bad will the fall be? What can be salvage? Then every step to the bottom is another chance to be hurt. Clinging to the railing and feeling Like such a fool. Such an idiot. And from then on, the whole world is a staircase. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story […]
Heather posted her last Art Zoobalie picture recently, and got me to thinking I’d never shared the picture I took. So, here they are. 🙂
Sometimes the distance between you and I spans more than the miles of telephone wire, or the pauses between breaths when thinking spins too fast, or the shattering of a sentence placed wrong. Sometimes everything stretches out into meaningless fog and crossing the dark bridge to be where you are seems impossible. I am battered now, and wonder, when I finally return, will you still love me? Drew and Suzie are characters from my regular Friday serial Suzie’s House. This […]
Happy Holidays! Say Rabbit! Rabbit! in the comments to bring good luck to you and me. Let me know if you have a bunny post today.
Until a few days ago, the river has been much too high for the time of year. I’ve been expecting it to spill over the banks any minute. Really, we’re so lucky to have such high banks. There’s a bike path running along the river that never gets wet. Then it dawned on me that the reason the land on the other side of the path is so low is because the path sits right on top a levy. Good […]
I’ve been working on it (the quilt I’m giving away), honest. I’m far enough along now that I need a bigger space to piece things. Turns out the front porch is just big enough, but has huge gaps between the boards. So, I lay out cardboard and work on that. The first day I did it was a nice, cool morning. Everything was great until the neighbor decided to let the dog out. I was too busy to look up […]
I have a bunch more attempts at capturing this rainbow, but I’m holding on to them for later.
I had the hardest time trying to get my camera to do this right. Never did get it.