Scribbling on the digital page because I am too tuckered out to get up and get the paper one. So you are all my notebook for tonight. That’s good because there are good things to say. There are many things, sure, embedded in my heart that are yet to come to fruition. But with or Continue Reading
9/11 2018: 17 YEARS AFTER 17 MINUTES
I wasn’t going to write this – because I don’t like to talk about it anymore. And because the voices of those who lived the hardest stories are so much louder in my soul, so I’d rather sit reverent in their remembrance. As the dust continues to settle, it’s only harder to look back. But Continue Reading
BLONDE BREAKS RULES
….I didn’t do it!!!…. Okay so funny story, God’s sense of humor a decaffeinated jolt to the system: I was doing a 21-day fast with a group of people — not from food but things, and one of the things on my list was Starbucks. Yesterday I had an 8 hour drive to San Diego Continue Reading
Aim High
So many active duty pictures I love of mom and have posted on Veterans Days and Birthdays and Mother’s Days throughout the years, but today while I was scrolling, looking for one of those shots, a thought struck me about this one. It’s recent. Of all places, taken at a Goldsboro Hardee’s over honey biscuits, Continue Reading
“Life Guard” On Duty
A Very Sad Story: Took this pic Monday June 10, with the intention of posting light, passing comment, “So glad God never posts this sign in our lives (no lifeguard on duty). The Life guard is always on duty.” Didn’t know the depth that message would take on two days later, when near this spot, Continue Reading
Briefcase of Gold
Today’s photo from the San Diego Reader struck a heartstring bc this is literally THE spot I fell in love with San Diego. I had just touched down, wheels still warm, from first-time landing at SAN. (’02) I was two months shy of a long-awaited move back to Cali after 10yrs in NYC. I had no Continue Reading
A Passing Corner of Camelot
I spent Thanksgiving once with a musicy kind of crowd. They were doing sing-alongs around a piano. I was there with my significant other with whom I was heading to an end, but amicably so because of different desires for our futures. It was because of this love and friendship that no one knew we Continue Reading
The Most Surprising Sunrise
It was my 10th Sunrise on the Shore and it will be irreplaceable. Good Friday was good. People, song, dress pants. A work afternoon in familiar coziness, tucked in sound booth, full view of palms indoor and out and “Sunday Comin’,” but fam far away. Saturday magic. First glimpse of the bowl. Electricity humming in Continue Reading
Stand Still & See…
“Stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!” — 1 Samuel 12:16 Today, I got glasses…and what I saw made me wonder…. At some point I turned 40. There was a restaurant in Vegas with my family. Sinatra’s Grammy was there. The gold one, not Rosa. And Continue Reading
Teach Them How to Learn
I got straight As until the 5th grade when my mother asked me what changed. It was the formulaic homework, tests, boxes, and choreography on paper that I couldn’t follow. The few As I was getting were not indicative of my work. To quote my parents, “She’s getting As in spelling and cannot spell a Continue Reading
We Are Alive
Apparently I’m walking around the grocery store looking depressed as heck again because a long-bearded Son of Anarchy with an armful of snacks and sundries just told me to smile. I glanced with trepidation and a bit of a furrow, unsure if he was catcalling or legit. But there was almost Tibetan intentionality in his Continue Reading
Chilean Sea Bass is my Spirit Animal
I keep food posts to a minimum if at all but it frequently occurs to me that… God made light and dark and said it was good and Earth and Sky and blah blah good, and He made man and said it was, “good, but I’ll have to revisit that one in a little bit Continue Reading
A Growing Problem
So there I am in the Nugget, minding my own business. I’d stopped, tired and in scrubbies, for just broccoli rabe and a rotisserie chicken. But a frenetic little man in trendy trainers was running around with iPhone in one hand and parsnip in the other asking if it was a turnip. I figured he Continue Reading
You Give Your Hand to Me
The song found me, on a late night scurry south, with old albums on the radio. Usually, it’s a book on tape or the set we’re set to sing come Sunday. Road trip Creature Comforts of black asphalt and Squid Ink sky, butterscotch latte, half the pumps, and the fuzz muffin, safe at home, gave Continue Reading
Running to Little Women
My mother sent me a painted portrait one day of a grandmother pouring tea for a little girl in a storybook setting and likened it to Mrs. Moore. Like opening the cover of a well known book, it took me back not just to afternoons in the blue house on the hill, but to a Continue Reading
I Took Yesterday Home
Earlier in the summer, I had passed along to another couple the table that’s been in my family since I was oh I don’t know third grade? It was hard to let go of but didn’t fit in my space and was too much table for this single girl in 700 square feet. So history Continue Reading
All Good Gifts
Here while it’s still Thursday January 31st in the candlelight, writing down all the bolts of lightening that struck my life’s still skies today, unignorably bright though just a streak of light, and everything struck, caught fire with love. It’s the first exactly-same-calendar this year in 2019 since the year I was born, 1974 – Continue Reading
Coastal Commentary
Scribbled in backs of books, notebooks, pages lined and un-,
these are just the latest “words the Ocean wrote.”
