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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
writers in a dangerous time
it ought to be easy. i wake up and remember that i am in no rush. i remain prone a little longer, half-adrift, one eye pried open to smile at the small child thisclose to my face. today is the first day of the rest of my life, i intone, under my breath. morning dragon […]
32 Comments » - Posted in social media meta stuff,stuff to be done,writing stuff by bon
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
harvest
in the backyard, there is a box. six feet by three, two feet deep. in it, a jungle. i eye it nervously. last spring, when Dave’s father built these garden boxes for us and delivered them, Dave told Oscar we’d grow lettuce, and tomatoes, and wax beans. and cucumbers. oh, the cucumbers, he promised. visions of […]
29 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff by bon
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
at the red light
it was this morning, after i dropped the kids off. i pulled up at the stoplight just a second too late to coast through the grace period left behind in the wake of a turn signal. i was too busy cursing out the dawdler ahead who had damned me to a whole forty-five seconds of […]
85 Comments » - Posted in coping stuff,milestone stuff by bon
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Anne of Green Gables, never change
i am in the doorway, saying goodnight. i blow kisses and, to stem the inevitable Mommy! i want to tell you one more thing! i begin to sing. the song is a direct result of the chapter book Oscar and i have started this week, his first ever. Anne of Green Gables. it is his […]
22 Comments » - Posted in relationship stuff by bon
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
i got some things that are beautiful
we went away for a week and i was mostly offline and i did not die. yes, gather round, all ye internet hordes, and quiver at my testimony. i unplugged and lived to tell the tale. here’s the shocking part: it was easy. hell, i didn’t even flop around on the ground like a dying […]
28 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff,social media meta stuff,stuff to be done by bon
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
for Emilie, wherever i may find her
she was six the last time i saw her. the younger of two little girls, she had gold-brown hair, big gold-brown eyes. she liked storybooks and swings and made me an initiate into the world of Dora the Explorer. when i visited, she and i and her older sister drove Barbie convertibles and painted toenails […]
28 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff by bon
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
heart murmur
it was the clinic doctor last Christmas when both the kids had ear infections. he looked up from the white-draped table where Posey reclined obligingly. i was wrestling Oscar’s turtleneck back over his head now that it was his sister’s turn. i thought i’d misheard. what? it came out more snappish than i’d intended. i […]
41 Comments » - Posted in mama-baby stuff,milestone stuff,smitten stuff by bon
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
own it
i lick my finger and stick it into the wind. i smell money. i stick up a butterfly net to see if i can catch any, but it floats on by. i raise my eyebrow, stick out my lip. a twenty slaps me in the eye. it’s sticky, a little oily. on a long string, it […]
55 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,social media meta stuff by bon
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
thank you for being a friend
i was in college when The Golden Girls wrapped in 1992. to give the swan song of such a pop culture opus its due, my roommates and i held a most magnificent drinking game around the final episode. when it came down to deciding which among us was which character from the Golden Girls, i […]
24 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff by bon
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird
i dreamed last night that she was all grown up. i wasn’t any older. or i don’t think i was: i never caught sight of myself. the only reflective surfaces were her eyes. her exact blue almond eyes, only bigger, like anime. i could not see myself. my imagination balks at the conjecture of my own […]
