It’s an old story that never seems to go out of style, because human relationship dynamics continuously repeat themselves, intertwining and separating as men and women attract, embrace, and reject partners, almost like macro scale nuclear fusion and fission reactions.

Peter &ldqu… Read full post »

So about a month ago I got my life sentence: CAT scan shows no recurrence of tumors, I am officially in remission.  Whoo-hoo, right? Celebrate! Party down!

What is about being human that grooves on dissatisfaction? Buddha defined the source of misery in the world as desire. Chris… Read full post »

I pretty much don’t drink anything alcoholic but wine and Margaritas. There are several legends about the origin of this drink, and at least one famous song, Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTf5qvS0Lo

Here is the recipe I and W use whe… Read full post »

Coming up on Monday, I have my CAT scan to see what’s going on inside me. It’s been one year since my last chemo treatment. I alternate between benign hope that there’s nothing in there that shouldn’t be and certainty that sooner or later it will be baaaaack.

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Coming up on Monday, I have my CAT scan to see what’s going on inside me. It’s been one year since my last chemo treatment. I alternate between benign hope that there’s nothing in there that shouldn’t be and certainty that sooner or later it will be baaaaack.

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Thanksabunch!!!! Remember, life is a gift...be  a present!!!! Read full post »

The Elephant Room signature sconce!!!  Read full post »

W and I have been visiting The Elephant Room in downtown Austin because we both like to listen to jazz. The Elephant Room boasts of being the only venue in Austin that offers live jazz performances every evening of the year (yes, 365 days).

I guess you could… Read full post »

Son y No Son
Playing at the market
Cumbia, cha-cha, merengue
Congas, timbales, gitarras
The traditions
Baila, salsa

She comes dancing
Wearing Cuban heels
She knows these songs
Moves to the rhythms
Radiating joy
Singing, dancing

I smile at her
As she passes
She looks past me
It… Read full post »

It doesn’t take much
To have courage
It only takes everything
Everything you have
Everything you do
Everything you believe

Wary eyes watchful
Solitary, guarded,
Concealed among dead leaves
Coiled like a rattler
Don’t tread on me, mine
Venom is dispensed justly… Read full post »

Scathed, touchable,
Daunted, flinching

Random remark
Punctures tender core

Fear bubbles up
Oily iridescent glamour

Spreading, coating,
Spoiling, choking

Vainly seeking
Solace, harmony 

Pleading tranquilo,
Tranquilo, tranquilo!… Read full post »

Once again she felt that familiar tug just under her heart and between her shoulder blades.  Only this time it was firmer. It lasted longer too. Not precisely a pain, more than a pull, that left her gasping and her heart skipping.

“Yes, yes, mother, I know,” she whispered. “It… Read full post »

Our second Christmas
“I spent a fortune!”
You exclaimed.
You a grad student
I was a secretary.
Fortunes are relative
But this I believe
It was a measure of
Your love for me.

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It gets around
Contagion, cackling

Arrows fly true
Targets, acquired

Thought flies faster
Eyes, closed

Secrets moulder
Crumbling, cache

Scarlet blossoms desert
Horrible, horrible, horrible… Read full post »

It was while I attended Jeff Lofton’s performance at UT’s Cactus Café a few weeks ago.

http://www.jefflofton.com/

 Sublime traditional jazz, I presented my rapt attentive face - the one I keep in the jar by my door –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaRNrDaoMqw

but ski… Read full post »

cc says “Bleah!”
Blowing raspberries
At the Universe

Little surprise
When the Universe
Responds in kind

In a blue funk
Why not red funk?
Sounds more fun

Red funk
Blue funk
Green funk: Bleah

Funk, yeah!
Get… Read full post »

I've been away from OS for several weeks. Apologies to my favorites if I haven't been reading and commenting. I'm in a slump and don't feel much like writing. I'll come back one of these days. Please know I think you're all brilliant and I support you all!

Like those screen savers of pipes connecting
Popping in and out, here and there,
Purple, green, gold, scarlet,
No place and every place at once
My heart seeks yours, finds the thread
Cats cradle twisting, holding hands, intertwined

I lost it to you, you were… Read full post »

Happy Valentine's Day! Roses from my sweetie ("W"):

Being born a boomer
Formed me, informs you
But that’s not all I am

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I’m chuffed, truly buoyant,
Been described as “fun”!
Haven’t been able to affect or
Effect many people in… Read full post »

Knock, knock, knock!
I go to the front door.
No one on the porch but a bird smashing into our window.
He stops, looks, gives me New York attitude,
“Whaddaya  want, lady? I’m workin’ here!”
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Face the day? Let’s face the music and dance!
Stand up, chin up, cowboy up, man up,… Read full post »

Since people commonly make resolutions at the beginning of the new year about being more healthy, exercising, and eating right, I'm reposting my revised walking playlist (entitled, strangely enough, "Walking")  below, then a vegetarian (sort of) recipe. A kind soul (Faye Paxton) suggested I/… Read full post »

Hello, Goodbye: Happy New Year!

A link to the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBZ8ulc5NTg

Well, we’ve finally seen the back of 2011. Good riddance, I say! Echoing Dickens’ Christmas Carol, “It comes from other re… Read full post »