Halloween is candy and costumes. All Souls Day is a day where this world is obscured by misty memories , when flashes of what lies beyond spit and sputter into and out of our awareness, and when those we once loved travel back to visit on slanted beams of autumn afternoon light. But in the […]
Autumnal Equinox – Calm Before the Storm
I have always loved the ways the words “autumnal equinox” roll off my tongue. Three syllables each, vowel heavy, q and x, and n sounds, quirky smooth complexity. The season was sort of a damp gray melancholy after a few days of vibrant color where I grew up in the mid-west, but where I now […]
Juice, Juju, Karma, and The Business of Blogging: Part II
Do you every ask yourself, who am I helping with my participation in this ad campaign or blogging network? Perhaps you should. Helping yourself, helping your community, and helping global corporations all have very different reward structures and consequences. Types of Strategic Promotion This is the second post in a series of posts on the […]
I Want to Write About Fashion Not Death
I woke up today thinking I would edit my “fashion/non-fashion” post for a GenFab “blog hop.” I came out to the living room, realized my husband had not made coffee after being awakened at 4 a.m by our 5 month old, 75 lb. guard puppy barking out the front window over at the neighbors, wandered […]
Oh Geesh, Mommy Wars Erupt Around Tragedy
The children, the babies, are not yet buried and the “Mommy Wars” have started over blog post responses to viral posts. I have many other pressing tasks to do, including traffic court today for forgetting to register my car, and I don’t want to spend the day researching. I probably should because I am a […]
HOW, Exactly, Arizona Elections Are Being Stolen
Crappola. I want to be a regular old empty nest blogger and non-political writer, but I am cursed with awareness of events and the power that single voices can have. So instead of writing about Pinterest posts that serve as #ff or Follow Friends or Follow Fridays or Friend Feed or whatever the heck it […]