Do you enter a new year with resolutions and resolve? Or might you choose a word or principle to guide you?
Relaxing Roundup
Relax. Read. Make soup! (Wear great shoes.)
01-01-11
Come on. It’s a cool number, isn’t it? 01-01-11? I love when dates dive into delicious and satisfying strings, when digits fall into obsequious and obedient order, when they arrange themselves into a poetic pattern that pleases me. Who doesn’t notice the tidy affectation of 1-1-11? Or the distinct delight that comes at certain hours […]
Letter to the new decade
Dear 2010, and the nine years that follow: I am bracing myself. I step over the threshold to meet you with awareness of my own fragility, shadows hovering, and a crystal ball that seems to be on the fritz. My machinery is in disrepair and I am past due for a talented handy man. I […]