After running around the worldfor the past few yearslike a chicken with its head cut offI’ve discoveredI still have a brain stem.I can stop flapping; I don’t need to tread water.I can start walkingas soon as I clear a path through … Continued
What was I saying,before this message came across:“You have some unsaved changesthat will be lost.”?Oh yes:I’ve been scanning what I’ve savedand throwing it away.But I’ll have it if I need iton some later day.And the chances that I’ll look at … Continued
Just catching up on each other’s lives. It’s so easy to get behind. A little travel, a little time, and we wonder where we are. We find so much is still the same, like growing up and constant change. We’ve … Continued
Oh, oh, my album-titled self.I changed my name to get my product on the shelf.Now I’m waiting, waiting to see if it sells.Waiting all by my album-titled self. Paint on the tape on the video.There wasn’t much that he wouldn’t … Continued
Your first tooth broke through,you crawled and stood up, too,you climbed up on the shelf,all by your very self.You ate chunks of bananas,you made some sounds like “da-duh,”you had many happy meetingsand you learned to wave a greeting.You displayed your … Continued
But me, I don’t mind change.Let’s get on with it.Let’s do something different.I wouldn’t mind a bit.If staying here is normal,let’s do something strange.To some that may be scary,but me, I don’t mind change.
There she goes again, ripping out the seams. Doesn’t she know it will leave holes? I wish I could hold it all together for her. She thinks she might be better off alone. Bits of thread lie scattered on the … Continued
My baby is six months old,that wiggly, giggly baby of mine–that holdable, foldable babywho is with me almost all the time.That rooting, scooting babycould soon get up and go.Gone is the snarfing, barfing babythat I used to know. Half a … Continued
“Don’t get old!” she says to me.(She is ninety-two.)But I’m not sure there’s anything elsethat I can do. Knowing that I am still youngand knowing what I don’t,sometimes I wish for long-term ageon a short-term loan. Someday I’ll know a … Continued