I hate trolls who post thir advertising messes in people's blog posts as "comments".

Looks like I have unlooked for cleanup and maintenace time to commit to this menace.

Almost the end of January, and (still) high's in the fourties? I'll takr this over last winter,...any year.

Easy, quiet Friday for a change, now that the week's craziness and drama have passed. Now that the wound on the thumb is healing and not throbbing; now that my mom is resting comfortably in post-surgiery ICU, and the car is fixed, and the crises have resolved ( Read more... )

First draft of a new piece that came to me as I sat on the deck tonight, looking over the plants in bloom and thinking about radio set lists...

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(no title yet)

I have learned to nurture a garden ( Read more... )

Sometimes, a letter just is...

and sometimes it's simply a letter

except when it's a closure

whether or not the recipient knows it.

purple pearls--petals
unfurl, pushing open the
leafy sheath of bud
and a promise of fragrance.
Snow on the window, waiting

This week, while I was in Boston to attend a training in health disparities at MGH, I found time to stop by the Museum of Fine ArtsI'd just received the latest member mailing, and was curous about the upcoming show on ART GLASS by Dale Chihuly. I was so taken by the luscious colors and fantastical shapes on the cover and in the two-page photo ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I'd tried to email a request ("Spring" by RS)into the Sunday folk program on the local community radio station, but the PC wasn't playing nice. I didn't get on-line until after the program ended, so I emailed that the request be played on the programmer's NEXT show ( Read more... )

"If you could have dinner with a famous person, living or dead, who would that be and why ( Read more... )

I was reading the local arts & music newsweekly the other day--specifically the column written by ocvictor. He asks local musicians about what's on their listening devices, and discusses ten random picks ( Read more... )