

Mondays: Sloshy
My favorite thing I heard this week came from the C.R.E.A.T.E. Series podcast. Natalie quoted a friend: "Never hold another woman as...


Mondays: Easter Ammo
I ruined the Easter Bunny in the car ride home after my parents' Good Friday service. To be fair, he asked -- Fisher, I mean. My parents...


Mondays: Cave Porn
I just finished the second book of the Earth's Children series - The Valley of Horses (Jean M. Auel). I loved the first book: Clan of the...


Mondays: Cope's Rule
I humiliated myself recently by asking my women's health practitioner to check my thyroid. I told her it seemed like the only thing my...


Mondays: The Heavy
Welcome to a new series: Mondays. It's very simple. When Monday rolls around, I write something here. Ta-da! That's it. I've been reading...


light keeper chicken hawk
When it rains, the drops clang against metal in the busted gas fireplace in my living room. I hardly think about the fact that it's...


her feathered cap
The birds are molting. At first I thought they were sick. It started with a Sparrow on the suet feeder, sickly balding head on a messy...


as small as a patch of clover
Time has passed, and here we are: Older and more like ourselves. I am six shows post-pandemic reopening, and I don't know what to say...


stealing bases.
Well. The Vice Presidential Debate: It was easier to follow, at least. My son is playing in a Fall baseball league. This is the first...


monuments and syrup bottles and The Dixie Chicks and Marie Kondo
In the past month, I've been filling gaps in my education. I've learned about redlining, Juneteenth, The Negro Motorist Green Book, and...