the frogs are peeping and the coyotes are howling! oh, spring.

in the winter i get so pale my skin is practically translucent. the veins that you can always see, through my the tops of my hands and my wrists, are violent blue up through my upper arms and into my torso. they make blue spiderweb bursts over my hipbones, continue over my stomach or around to the backs of my knees ( Read more... )

kids, never ever play leap frog with a unicorn.

ps. friends and lovers of the midwestern persuasion, i am back in the nati.

fuck that shit.

i am currently staying with a bunch of my family in florida. it's so nice down here, the sun is out all the time. i have enormous amounts of vitamin c coursing through my veins, because there are orange and grapefruit trees literally in the backyard. there is something very simple and satisfying about picking something off a tree and just eating it ( Read more... )

*tonight i have the house all the myself. pleasing ( Read more... )

today lauren and i were looking at a map ( Read more... )

this weekend, MUSE cincinnati women's choir and Women Writng for a Change are collaborating on a concert. it will be wonderful, i strongly urge you to come. i've been writing with WWfaC since about fifth grade, and was an assistant teacher for one of their young girl's programs this summer. they are a wonderful group of women, and MUSE always ( Read more... )

WHAT ARE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN??

thanks to various people, i have new music to listen to! i have newfound love and respect for JANIS JOPLIN (thanks to my mother) and also TUPAC, who fuckin rocks (thanks to kenji takahashi). i also have been listening to BOB DYLAN and MOS DEF, thanks to erin and henry, respectively. (an interesting mis of dirty hippie music and rap ( Read more... )