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My niece turned 6! She had not one but TWO parties. This was preparation for her Pirate Party for all 25 kids from her kindergarten class. T...

Tapioca blanding next to mousse, cabbage goodness wilting in panting breaths, I’m terrible in bite-size pieces – artichoke leaves and no hea...

Virgo's NEVER get good horoscopes. We're the "straight" man to every other sign in the zodiac. This month's horoscope ...

What's so bad about thinking? I call it being conscious. A friend just lost a friend, and one of the reasons given was that her friends...

Space aliens have taken over my family. No really. Met up with my sisters and brother-in-law because my favorite great-aunt's son, Norm...

For you lovers of good writing, these are the 10 winners of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Contest ~ AKA Dark and Stormy Night Contest ~ (ru...

Time to pull in for some major self-tuning. Journaling the other night, I realized just how much of my life is driven by the powerful fear o...

Everything's moving so fast, but somehow I'm not panicked, because I sense strongly that things are actually revolving , which means...

by Simon Ortiz I don’t really feel like walking at first but somehow I feel I must since I have come this far to this edge, and so I walk. T...

by Simon Ortiz Agee. I don’t mean that Agee, I mean Agee from home. He was just one of us, but a hero. I mean not in a big way but real, be...

Apparently it's my year for doggy drama. First losing Izzi in October to a rare heart explosion. Then my friend Rob asks me to dog-sit f...

What stories I know about these people I will share with you. The stories begin with the men and always end with the women; that’s the way ...

An old dream you thought was lost will reoccur. And it will slay you pulled back into old nightmares you’d killed by never sleeping pinching...

My library books are all overdue. Can't imagine why. I've had some of them checked out since 2004. Not kidding. Right now, I'...

This from a beautiful book called These are not sweet girls , an anthology of Latin American women poets. Speaking of Gabriel Like all guest...

she is fifteen but amazed when i sign to her that the sun cannot be heard even on its brightest days Seattle Poetry Bus 1999

Find someone with cuts to match your cuts, lines to meet your lines. Fold yourself to fit, as required. Some parts of you may interlock. Cut...

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patrioti...