hiding in plain sight

this man has never seen this

but he understands 

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when he was just two

he loved a book about love

copied from his heart

seeing another

becoming something greater

such pain, loss on loss

ego awakens

beauty in remembering

his muse, someone else

let it go, let… Read full post »

over arch angel 

winged in shadows, looming dark

I did not see you 

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(failure has no image)

my project derailed

two hundred sixty five down

back up to the plate

I only have about 100 to go.  I am ready and on it.  I have some banked, so look here tomorrow.  I have pictures and a fresh perspective.  The… Read full post »

What to call an individual that you tap regular but is over 30 and so is not really a boy or girl friend and yet is not a spouse?

I have it!

"Honored Companion"

REASONS THIS TERM IS AWESOME
HEAR ME OUT-YOU NEED THIS:

non-gender specific

greater than friend

does… Read full post »

I have read all of his books.  I admire his writing and philosophy of food and culture.  I get him. 

But much like "Sugar tits" Braveheart, and Napalm cooch Mayer, I cannot love him unconditionally anymore.  

The processed food generation is not the product of second wave feminism… Read full post »

During a discussion with our Juli, I defined a new term:

unrockable,  adj, (un rok i bel)  adv. unrockably

1. wardrobe item that cannot be worn in a flattering manner  

2.  mode of entry into a room that is never cool

3.  a fashion statement that only… Read full post »

While I know and appreciate that it is perfect emotional separation from his mommy, a development that has to happen in healthy boys, when he says that his daddy is his best friend and that I am a friend too, it is a little sting that reminds me that when he… Read full post »

I was thinking about this issue today because I have been thinking a lot about my mother.  I was born in 1967, meaning that abortion was illegal and her choice regarding my birth, her fifth pregnancy, was a non-option.  Going somewhere safe and having it was not affordable, going somewhere… Read full post »

They tore down the hutong district in Beijing where I wandered freely and unbothered. I bought a beautiful painting there, possibly illegally, that I treasure.

Sometimes I walk through it in my mind and each time I pass one grey courtyard with a rather common door step, I remember… Read full post »

I have noticed in my absense that Salon is running a lot of the OS writing as part of the real content over at Salon.  I think that is awesome and a lot of the content here really deserves to be there.  Congratulations to all that have made that leap.

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 A friend of mine's pubescent girlchild just went crazy, right on schedule.

Teen age girls are all horrible to their mothers, even more horrible than to their fathers.  It is a sexual competition thing.  And no, you are not actually competing for the same resources, but t… Read full post »

I am an artist.  By trade and by choice.  I have patrons, people that make it possible for me to do this instead of working for a standard paycheck.  It is a deal I make with society:  I make you interesting things and you buy enough of those things that I… Read full post »

 I was in my early 20's, freshly married, and grinding marinara sauce in an Italian restaurant kitchen when Jeff came and told me.  I knew it was coming for a long time, but that day, it was outside of my consciousness.  The marinara sauce was a secret of the… Read full post »

 seven inches, snow

 his seventeen surprises

each year sweeter still

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see seven sisters

pleides and orion

connecting my dots

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