It was getting to be the time of year that the gnats came out in clouds and drove everyone inside. Where the gnats came from was a mystery, but since most things on this planet were a mystery, nobody much cared about this one. Except Marla. She wanted to know. She was tired of playing […]

once upon time some friends took a trip to ireland.  they traveled their separate ways, but met up in dublin airport.  one came from barcelona and another from santa fe.  it was the middle of winter.
they both did “that thing” which most visitors in dublin do,  they looked very carefully in both directions when crossing […]

Today’s Words:
Boise
tusk
Spiderman
jovial
mishmash
tabernacle
hypotenuse
Nobody seems to like Boise or Spiderman as topics. Well, I don’t have a halcyon story about the beginning of my writing career, but I’ll relate some events of that era nonetheless before launching into my own story.
In first grade, I wrote a story about a little girl who hates her parents so much […]

Today’s Words:
Boise
tusk
Spiderman
jovial
mishmash
tabernacle
hypotenuse
So I was in 6th grade, and my teacher for the year was Miss Conaway. She was 29 or 30. Hot. Long brownish red hair. Dressed smart but not all dolled up. She was “real” as Juli & I would have called her. I was in love. Not since 2nd grade had I fallen […]

i was a little kid at the time. something extremely rare happened. for some reason, i was left alone in the house with a babysitter. this did not happen in our house. my parents had seven children, and never needed to hire a babysitter. except that one time when i had mumps and it was […]

Today’s Words:
fierce
tussah
tempt
slumber
tabacosis
tableau
influence
I must confess that I have an unfair advantage in that I am quite familiar with the word tussah. Tussah is not just the moth, but is also the name for the silk produced by the moth. I know this because my mom sells tussah silk. And red dye made with bugs (cochineal bugs, […]

fierce
tussah
tempt
slumber
tabacosis
tableau
influence

 
Today I don’t feel like writing, but gold dern it, I’m going to write. I’ll not artlush, though I like that idea a lot. Movielush. Photolush.
 I bared my breasts on youtube.
 In case you’re wondering, here’s a few definitions:
 Tussah : Oriental moth that produces brownish silk
I have no clue how to work that into a story. […]

Today I didn’t feel like writing so I decided to do something visual instead:

Tutankhamen
lapping
abaxial
abient
impulsive
illegible
dobro

My brain is strangely clear this morning, after at 24-hour cocktail of fever, confusion, and a dash of fear. Diana dropped by for five minutes yesterday—five life-changing minutes as it turned out—for she came bearing two fantastic drugs – Theraflu, and Airborne. Airborne is just an all around good policy for boosting the immune […]

Today’s Words 
varnish
slip
grandmother
pleather
supreme
inquietude
splash
The varnish on my heart isn’t so easy to remove. I’ve scrubbed, but it’s insistent. I sometimes think I’ll end up in a monastery, joking with the monks and planting beets. Spending my mornings in the garden, and my afternoons scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing at my heart, gently working my way through the coatings of […]