Month: August 2009

as of this week, i've been out of grad school for 2 years and 3 months. i've been working professionally as an editor (and sometimes copy writer, ad writer, brand strategist, researcher, etc. ) for more years than i can easily say. (summing up all paid writing/editing experiences--particularly the 7 years of early motherhood spent [...]

cousins run into each other at a family picnic; it's been a long time since they've seen each other face to face. friends on facebook, the two greet each other and the younger woman immediately recalls with fondness the years of sleepovers in their youth, combing and braiding each other's hair, late night jaunts in [...]

how many women before me have swallowed...the pill? today was cool, and i heart amber rose.

there is so much work (left) for the living to do. maybe george's death will reinvigorate my latent fascination with life, death, and the purpose and effects of each. and well. there is an awful lot of writing to be done, and painting, and grieving, and laughing, and crying, and fucking (and being fucked), and [...]

george has died, george is dead, and george is gone. poor georgie couldn't be a more untrue statement because george was happy most of the times anyone saw him over the years...especially since his brush with death a few years back and so there is no poor georgie... there is only poor us, the living [...]