Home is where the heart is and family is what you make. You can inherit more than money and land. Sometimes, you can inherit love. PastPresentFuture i. see her, hips rounded like a pear rounded like mine, blackbrown as earth the swaying bounce of her step muted enough, she prays, to … Continue reading PastPresentFuture (7)
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Super Duper
I am a member of the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) and periodically they send out writing prompts. Here’s one they sent the other day: Where, or for whom, are you a superhero in your world? What are your superpowers? In prose or verse, write a portrait about your superhero self, using third-person pronouns (she, her), … Continue reading Super Duper
Upmanship
“I’m unhappy with happy endings where we think we may have learned something comfortably.” -- Anthony Bourdain from Prime Cuts, Season 7 Tonight the Mister and I binge-watched Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Nostalgia about our own trip to Italy a few years back lured us to watch an episode about Southern Italy, Puglia. That episode … Continue reading Upmanship
Body Language
I have a series of pictures of me or parts of me. I’ve collected them over the years from my teens to middle age. Quick sketches in charcoal or colored pencils, a painted portrait, a painted study of my hands, a folk art depiction, a mixed media portrait, and photographs. All of them different but … Continue reading Body Language
