Roadbenders

I trimmed the dead winter twigs from the lavendar and my finger was stabbed, but it was fair This is the difference between a poem and the sting of real life – in a poem I can tell you of the victory the lavendar felt as it wore my blood. Lavendar, if you are listening
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I don’t know what these are. But they’ve taken over my backyard and I love it. The vinca is blooming. The peas are mostly surviving the daily attacks by various local fauna. Daffodils are like little bits of sunshine. This wasn’t so long ago. But we’ve moved on to better things. Josh has already shaved
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I’m sitting under the window in the room that used to be my bedroom when I was sixteen. My laptop is propped up on a TV tray and I’m facing the door. When this was my bedroom, I had a blue sofa sitting here that I used as a bed. Why? Because when the sofa
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Yesterday Josh went to Santa Anita to watch the horses race. It’s no secret to anyone who talks to me that Josh has been involved in auto racing since birth (and myself as well, in a spectator kind of way), but with the changes NASCAR has made to the Cup series – well, let’s just
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I love marmalade. Adore it, even. And it’s horrendously expensive where I live so I don’t get to have it very often. Well, truthfully speaking, I don’t buy it where I live because it’s not very good. SO, given that it’s California citrus season – or the end of it, actually – there’s a lot
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For the last two months Josh has been back in his culinary groove. He even took our chef’s knives to be sharpened (and I was so excited about this development that I embarrassed myself exclaiming over the fine hone in the hardware store – but seriously, I’d been using a paring knife for everything for
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