Monthly Archives: April 2010

Voice

I am so grateful that I don’t have much of a filter between my thoughts and my words, either spoken or written. I am grateful that I am who I write I am. A friend called it coming to voice and it is a gift or a skill not to be taken for granted. I [...]

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Grad School and Grandparents

My grandmother was born on the Spring Equinox of 1925. The first Aries of many to love me unconditionally. It’s funny, both of my grandmothers ooze artistic ability, both so arty and crafty, but this grandmother, my paternal grandma, would never in a million years call herself an artist. She would call herself crafty and fidgety [...]

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White Picket Fences

That era is supposed to be over, both the propagation of the myth, and the rebellion against it. And yet… We still recognize it We still discuss it And some of us still expect it. Maybe the only real evolution in our collective thinking is that the fence now comes is different shapes and sizes? [...]

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