DIRNDL SKIRT

Saving Jumbo’s Children

I am gallery-sitting on a Saturday with a legal pad on my lap, fulfilling a promise I made to myself a week ago. Which is to address, in some minuscule … Continue reading →

April 1, 2013 · 2 Comments

Material Girl

I was born into the spirit of Christmas gift excess. The proof sits in family archives passed down to me, the oldest and the childless. It is in the meticulously … Continue reading →

December 2, 2012 · 2 Comments

Letter to My Two Tea Party Aunts

It’s been a few years since we’ve actually seen each other, due to distance, lifestyles, and a lull in funerals. And there’s no dire need to acknowledge second marriages of … Continue reading →

October 25, 2012 · 5 Comments

Mesmerized

Mesmerized, I watch a praying mantis on the move. Inching her way up the front door, fastidiously unfolding her raptor-like, double-hinged forearms (legs?), she pauses, tilts her triangle head, and … Continue reading →

September 28, 2012 · 2 Comments

Safe

It was time to vacate city life well before 9/11. For thirty years I had embraced it, rolled with its punches, and defended it through thick and thin to uncomprehending … Continue reading →

September 5, 2012 · 4 Comments

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