Vesuvius At Home

Yesterday my sister called me to say a swarm of bees had arrived in her lilac bush and two hours later, she had hived that swarm. I sp...

Late last week I'd sat down to work, ready to input edits I'd made to my Very Pretentious Work of Fiction, when I plum started c...

Things That Are Contagious: 1) Bees Our landlord came over the other day with some college guys to aerate the lawn and get fluste...

Last week I went in to Bookstore to turn in an application. I went kicking and screaming, against my own will, because--spoiler alert!-...

Yesterday I sat at Starbucks so long the baristas offered me free sustenance. "We made a mistake, but you look like you could use this,...

I realized I might be in a bad way today when I found myself standing at the kitchen counter in my underwear eating cookies out of the packa...

At night I lie awake and think of the bees. I see them in my brain, in my belly, in my heart. Scurrying around and working their magic, gath...

Lately I have been enjoying myself by teasing Mr.V, stating frequently that I'm going to change teams. (I don't know if that just ma...

(Please forgive the image issues in this post. The HTC EVO phone I had on the trip makes everything--everything--impossible. This was the be...

December first. I wake to snow. I crave hot drink and solitude by a window where I can see the falling white and listen to my soul. Like ...

image from here You get to a point where you find yourself thinking, "Maybe I should make a roast". It's not that you ca...

I am not immune to certain superstitions. Today I have fortified myself for work like going to battle. This battle requires not weapons a...

I am happy to know a lot of creative people. I thought we might like this. Permission to Suck's ' Manifesto for Creative Professiona...

In case you didn't know, the spring always wants to make me travel. I typed it that way on purpose. It doesn't "make me wan...

//Acedia//: a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. It ca...

Someday, if I have a book published, I will have Ayla to thank. Ayla's birth upheaved and confounded me in ways that I still fail to f...