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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
in interesting times
the cuts seem to be coming hot and heavy now, after months of doom and gloom breathing down our necks. the downturn is crossing class lines, impacting manufacturing and media and corporate finance alike. the shit from an inflated, entitled culture that fed on bogeymen and retail therapy is hitting the fan. now the bogeymen […]
15 Comments » - Posted in coping stuff,pondering stuff by bon
Friday, March 20th, 2009
there was an old woman who lived in a shoe
at precisely 9:37 am this morning, i woke up. i’d been up for hours, obviously. people who sleep until 9:37 with two little children in the house usually have Child Protective services knocking on the door…or so i comfort myself. morning coffee is most scrumptious dark and bitter. but at 9:37 i became conscious. (gives […]
41 Comments » - Posted in issue stuff,mama-baby stuff by bon
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
don’t think you knew you were in this song
Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in News guy wept and told us earth was really dying He cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying i think i have post-cultural depression. you may […]
29 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,stuff to be done by bon
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
though your heart it be broken
if there were no calendars i would have no sense of how to tell my story, any of it outside the press of now, of in this moment I Am. a chorus line of dates has spun through my head since childhood and even my I Am is always counting, ordering, tallying the numbers according […]
31 Comments » - Posted in coping stuff by bon
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
stuck in the freudian anal phase
an old friend came into town last week on her way to a conference not far away. she was a friend in our expat days, someone we spent late nights and hangovers with, someone whose apartment floor we crashed on, whose ashtrays and rare collection of actual decent English books we made free with. she […]
36 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff,pondering stuff by bon
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
another mekong please
i woke up last night in the dark hours confused, heart pounding, uncertain of where i was. i’ve been sleeping with earplugs and not sleeping very well even at that but i had dropped deep and in the glub-glub hum of my own head had drifted far, far away, so much so that waking to […]
34 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff by bon
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
more
Originally uploaded by o&poecormier her first solids, if a thin rice-oatmeal gruel can really be considered solids. and there i am, pimping the mush, coaxing her little bird mouth to open, beaming with pride when she reaches out for more. smiling, watching, as i push her off the ledge. into whatever her life’s relationship with […]
33 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff,pondering stuff by bon
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
torrent
Originally uploaded by o&poecormier a rough night, little one. you are on the threshold of so many things these days that sleeping – so recently finally mastered, o thing of beauty – has suddenly left us, abandoned ship. i am bereft, blurry, unable to steer a straight course with the gaping hole of its absence […]
19 Comments » - Posted in mama-baby stuff by bon
Friday, February 20th, 2009
every sperm is sacred
yesterday was supposed to be vasectomy day. a crazy morning running around making sure kids were fed and watered and changed and temperatures taken and fevers broken and medicines swallowed and diapers packed and i made french toast but that was as much time as we seemed to have for special things, for taking stock. […]
26 Comments » - Posted in relationship stuff by bon
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
baby and toddler
baby and toddler Originally uploaded by o&poecormier i had no idea how complicated it would be, these two, these little lives unfolding in my house yet solitudes unto themselves. she turns to him, all baby squeak and anticipation, oozing delight; he turns away, all toddler moody i will go this far and then no further […]
