January 2006
A Bad Day
Mom is having a bad day. She has just now risen from bed, though it is nearly noon, leaving me with three hours of periodic breathing-checks from her doorway since I got up at half-past eight. Her light is always on when she’s had a bad night, her book open on her chest. Last night [...]
Read more >>Paint Sample Poetry
Names of paint samples I’ve collected this year:
Enveloping Calm
Foaming Waters
Light of the Moon
Earthy Glimmer
Moonlit Lawn
Purple Poem
Bark
Antique
Winter Evening
Sun Drift
Marble White
Mountain Pass
Chimney Sweep
Lush Shade
Gray Morning
Winter Wind
Violet Evening
Olive Grove
Haystack
Twine
Pale Sunshine
White Pine
Brown Moss
Lunar Glow
Meditation Blue
Chemo
(from my paper journal)
I am sitting in the patient room with Mom while she receives Gemzar intravenously. She is in a recliner, leaned back on two pillows with a blue blanket draped across her knees, engrossed in a Nora Roberts novel. She is wearing a grey tracksuit and has others at home in a variety [...]
The Year in Cities
Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles, CA
Crestline, CA
London, England
Pistoia, Italy
Florence, Italy
Venice, Italy
Rome, Italy
Athens, Greece
Paros, Greece
Oslo, Norway
Wineham, England