The way we talk
I spent my senior year of high school skipping class to go body surfing with a red-headed rodeo boy who worked at the gym where I taught swimming lessons. I had other boyfriends too, but I could never decide on which one to keep. Then I went to Germany and met a boy with long [...]
Underwater, for real
My heart goes out to them. I’m left without words as I try to imagine.
Underwater reinterpreted
In the quiet of the bedroom, the air conditioner makes the fish hanging from above Bean’s bed float in dreamy spirals. We lie together, just the two of us in the semi-dark, waiting for sleep to settle over his energy-packed little body. Waiting to just be in the moment, breathing.
lady bug
Just now, just at midnight, a lady bug landed on a piece of mail I had finished addressing. I’ll take it as a sign for something. Not sure what. Yet.
Underwater
I woke up moody this morning, my body drenched in sweat, feeling off-kilter for no particular reason. Sometimes it’s just like that. Everything feels slanted, thick, slightly smashed. And I couldn’t shake the mood all day. Even after a nap in an air conditioned bedroom, an iced tea and a trip to the bakery. Tonight [...]
The end of summer
Riding back on our bikes from the beach as the sun was slowly falling towards the mountains, I noticed maple leaves turning red. Autumn always brings introversion. A time to take stock of the way the garden has turned out after the growing season; the way my feet look, with a flip-flop tan line and [...]
At the beach today
Under a canopy of sunshine
Yesterday a 24 mile bike ride with Bean and one of my best girlfriends, out along the causeway. Lake water in every direction, ringed with mountains like we were in the middle of a blue bowl with a ragged edge.
The sky above us was sun-streaked and wind blown; tatters of clouds scudding by. Out [...]
Retail therapy:
Aren’t these wild? I want one… These 3 designs pretty much sum things up for me tonight. I’m feeling a bit edgy & intense. Ready for the weekend. Ready to skip the day’s headlines that clatter down on my brain like small pebbles dropped from a high rise rooftop. I can’t help every [...]
As I am, as she is
Went for a run this afternoon, in the late summer heat. 6 miles at about 7.5-8 mph pace the whole time. It was sort of a landmark for me, because I did this run at the beginning of the summer, way back when we first moved here three months ago, and I was terribly winded. [...]
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