the sky tonight
The sky was a Maxfield Parrish sky tonight. All midnight blue up by the moon, sifting down through paler and paler blues as it streched down to touch the city lights.
The sky was a Maxfield Parrish sky tonight. All midnight blue up by the moon, sifting down through paler and paler blues as it streched down to touch the city lights.
When I was a kid growing up, adults said things to my parents like, “Oh your little girl is so pretty.” Or, “Oh, your little girl is so smart.” I just thought that’s what adults say to be polite. Adults are total liars. Any kid knows this. They say food is […]
So many photos of Maya Angelou are of her older. I love this photo because she is a young woman in it. She was a young woman. In a turbulent place and time. Who stood up. And that is why she became the statesman we all see portrayed today. She herself said there […]
Every once in a while, I remember, almost everyone I know wants to join up with another human being and create children. Most of the time I forget other people have that imperative. It startles me.
I was in — A martial arts class once, and the ancestor master from China was there. There is a serious hierarchy in martial arts, and this man was THE ancestor of the classroom I was in. I was a baby in that class. It was Wing Tsun. Someone showed me how to do […]
Today I had this mental hit. I thought, What really matters? And for the first time in my life, I thought, me.
This is from the new SeeMaxRun site, it is an old life post, but one of my favorites. Annette’s Whale There was this woman named Annette when I was little who was friends with my parents. She was very glamorous and dashing, tall (or at least she seemed tall to me but I was little […]
It is crazy — The last time I worked this hard on any sort of campaign was March 2007, when I was fighting really hard to get information out on the emergency pet food recall. That saved a lot of pets and I felt good about doing it. When I push that hard for […]
Once upon a time — [I have to say once upon a time because once I posted about an accident present tense and everyone freaked so now I have to make time scales really really clear.] Once upon a time I was in this astounding accident. I was in a Saab headed down the […]