I have been meaning to write a post about why I haven't been writing many posts lately, but go figure, for all the reasons I haven't written about yet, I haven't finished it. So, I'm going to take the excellent suggestion offered by Wendy of Renewing Ruined Cities, who said I should consider re-posting some [...]
Posts under ‘holidays’
My Word for 2010
Image credit: Photo by The Gifted Photographer on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Two years ago, I gave up on New Year's resolutions. What do those ever lead to but disappointment anyway? Maybe I keep them, but mostly I don't. And when I don't, I feel like a failure. So, I picked a single word [...]
Haikus for Christmas Long Ago and Far Away
A box marked "fragile" holds shining memories wrapped in crumpled paper. She lights up like a firefly whenever you're around, George Bailey. Once a year. Each year. They emerge, sparkling, to be packed away. The delicate glass, like breath on a windowpane, glitters and is gone. This year, glass soldiers wait, tissue-wrapped with angels, in [...]
A Very Codependent Christmas
Image credit: Photo by Jon Curnow on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Last night my husband Mark and I stayed up past midnight finalizing the details of our Christmas budget and to do list. We divided up the errands and agreed on which of us would buy for whom and how much money we would [...]
July 4th Fireworks Haikus
Lawn chairs and blankets cover the grass like a quilt, balls swish overhead. Up past their bedtimes children in pajamas sit breathless on laps. A collective gasp, an "ooo," a thundering boom, as magic stars fall. Wide eyes turned upwards, thousands of reflecting pools hold showers of light.
Valentine Haikus
Children's candy smiles. Heads together, giggling over paper hearts. Pink cupcakes parties Tinkerbell and Transformers on small folded slips. --- Love: dressed up, trumped up. A girl stumbles in spiked heels, her lips plastic red. Alone and fretting: the rich textures of life aren't rose petal soft dreams. --- Come. White horse, red rose, happily [...]
Getting (Back?) to Normal
Whew! Winter break is over. The kids are back in school, and like a lot of other folks, I'm trying to get back in the regular swing of things. My writing and blog reading have both fallen by the wayside as I tried to make time, not just for the holidays but for the out-of-town [...]
Christmas Spirit
It is Christmas day and Jenn at J-Online passed on a little Christmas spirit to me. I'm going to list at least five things I love about Christmas and then pass it on. Christmas lights. In the short days and long nights of winter, all those twinkling lights have a special magic. After all, light [...]
My Holiday Madness (and Balance)
It's after 10:30 p.m. Austen has the sniffles and is still awake. I'm waiting for him to settle down before I take a quick shower and catch up with Mark, who has been out with some 12 Step friends. The kids both have parties tomorrow (the last day of school before break), and I'm hoping [...]
I’m Thankful for You!
Image credit: Photo by Jennifer13 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It's Thanksgiving here in the US. I can smell my pie baking and hear my kids playing (or rather, not actively fighting) and it's about time for me to get out of my flour-covered sweats and into something more presentable. But before I go [...]
