Today is a very sweet day.
In one month, at about this time, I will be marrying Adam Lloyd Whitlock and kissing him a lot. Today we went to Trader Joe’s. There was music playing by the frozen fish and I started bopping and he started bopping and he grabbed my hand and I [...]
The self portrait challenge this month is to show yourself in your natural environment. My natural environment is a sidewalk full of colourful little surprises (and most sidewalks are). I love to walk. Plop me in any town, and I will be content to explore on foot for hours and hours. [...]
I’ve always been crazy about my dad. I mean always.
Even that time when I was a very cool ten-year-old and my dad jumped around pretending to play the guitar on my cello in front of everyone as I was getting on the bus. I sat down, mortified, next to Jamie Huhn.
“Your dad is [...]
Today was Adam’s last day of school. He stopped by after his exam (a couples hours before I was expecting him) and found me curled up on my bed in funny pajamas watching Anne of Green Gables on my laptop. So girly. So busted. I tried to tell him that we [...]
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From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we [...]
Yesterday I got an e-mail from Sarah Buchkosky in Constanta, Romania. It reminded me of getting cinci mare pâine every day at the bakery that made the whole street fragrant with baking bread and learning to say “pâine” and hearing Turkish weddings from the rooftop and gathering sea glass and that time we [...]
Adam and I have gotten pretty sick of this wedding planning business. Pretty sick, indeed. The whole process just tends to get too materialistic for us. There are lists and websites and magazines full of things to buy and gifts to give and what to register for and it is just so [...]