Tried out the new WordPress Stories format for my Pepper Day post. Was it easy for you to read or did it give you troubles? You can click the badge below to read other posts from today’s Pepper Day or submit your own till midnight PST. Continue reading galactic meanderings
PepperDay link up will run from now till March 22nd, midnight PST. Any type of post is welcome, but please make sure content is respectful of all readers. Please tag your posts PepperDay so we can find them in the reader, too. Looking forward to visiting your webby home! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=a8b40ada7693d64e5923 Continue reading #PepperDay 3/22 Link Up
When I can’t quite build a thought out into something solid enough for this blog, I will often post it to Instagram with the tag #LilliputianLog. The last weeks have seen a few of those posts so I thought I’d share them and the content here for those who aren’t on the other platform. _______________________________________ 03.19.2021 I traced my husband’s handwriting onto a handkerchief, then … Continue reading lilliputian logs
On the farm where I grew up, the sky would shatter in the winter. It would drop shavings of frozen, clumps of ice sliver. It would breathe in all the months before and exhale a steady shivering of frost. The roads would glisten slick, like the walkway outside my front door. And we, the people who tended to the ground, who planned for this — … Continue reading salting this year
Once broken doesn’t mean always broken. Healed doesn’t mean there won’t be mending to do. Mending doesn’t have to be a hard work, it can be a soft one, a gentle tilling and tending. A piece of litter thrown into the recycling. A spritz of perfume behind my ear, the bright of the bergamot jumping in front of any other scent. A smile to a … Continue reading tending to the mending
Yesterday, it was the grief that lingers like the smell of pine when the Christmas tree has already been removed. You take big gulps of your own volition, seeking the pockets of air that would fill your lungs with memories. When you breathe out, they scent your nostrils and weigh down your tongue with a realization of gone forever. A heavy tongue, a heavy heart, … Continue reading dialects
I realize it’s March now, but I like this series so I’m just going to pretend that I wrote and posted this yesterday. And since we’re pretending, I will also imagine that I am writing this while seated elegantly on a giant translucent bubble, eating pie. My hair is perfect. 1 Kind interviewers. However they go in the end, I am grateful that I’ve had … Continue reading 5 february joys
Hi best beloveds, Tomorrow, Saturday February 27th, I’ll be reading for The Nasiona Community Reading Series. It’s a free, hour-long event, and three other amazing people will be storytelling as well. I’ve included a link below if you wanted to register, or you can check out more information about the event at this facebook link: https://fb.me/e/3DFmPTIWb xo,Rara Continue reading Saturday 2/27 – 5pm PST
