To See All or Nothing
Jan 20, 2026

To see all or nothing at all is just the way mommy is, sweetheart! So when mommy sees you do bad naughty things, and hears you talk back, all of a sudden mommy sees a terribly bad brat .If I've…

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I can’t do what I want with my body
Jan 20, 2026

During a writers' retreat at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Muir Beach, I had a series of seizures, a couple of them on the beach itself. Everyone who has seizures has their unique types. I have no awareness…

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Someplace like here
Jan 20, 2026

I guess that one reason why people love ghost stories is that if there are ghosts, our loved ones are not lost. Something, even something evanescent, lingers, we don’t really have to say good-bye, ever. Plus, if the ghost lingers…

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A love story
Jan 20, 2026

[Using my Creative Caffeine time to work on an essay...sometimes I do write to the prompts!] Who thinks of the future when they fall in love. I didn't when I met my husband. I didn't when I adopted my dog.…

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For Me, It’s All or Nothin’
Jan 20, 2026

So go the lyrics to the delightful bouncy tune in Rodgers and Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA, the show that changed the face of the modern American musical comedy. It's the adorable plea coming from the mouth of cowboy Will Parker , who…

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Pity, That
Jan 20, 2026

No matter how hard we try, we cannot make our bodies last past their due dates. Nope. That’s one ball that starts rolling and that stops its journey definitely and definitively! WE cannot stop it. We wear out. So no…

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Mariposa Street
Jan 19, 2026

The street I lived on when I was a young child in Los Angeles was perpendicular to two broad avenues (Griffith and Hollywood) which served as thruways to Hollywood r to the West and Los Feliz to the East. None…

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I Can’t Do What I Want with My Body
Jan 19, 2026

I can't do what I want with my body which is to offer my body to yours, to wrap my warm belly around you. You get the picture. Remember, back in early June, you told me plain as day that…

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You thought you could
Jan 19, 2026

Dear Stephanie, You thought you could cast a net wide and gather us all in but the net, heavy with obligation, sank and took us with it. A mother can only do so much. You should have stuck to your…

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Jan 19, 2026

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The Center of Myself.
Jan 16, 2026

The center of myself is my core that keeps me together. As long as I remember to pull my belly into my backbone from time to time as I go about my everyday life, my core develops. On weekends, by…

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Brunch
Jan 16, 2026

In the aftermath of a great slaughter there always seems to be a great love among the survivors affected. Like after great sex, all the passions are spent, sheets a mess, weird fluids here and there, we are ready to…

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