Thank you Katie I do find this information helpful

I ate another bowl of disappointment this morning and studied the mini-marshmallow blobs to try to determine their symbolism. So abstract. So Jackson Pollack.  
My discontent was noteworthy enough to garner an answer from Katie at General Mills.
Hello Ms. M:
 Thank you for contacting General Mills with your inquiry. The mini marbits Lucky Charms are a limited edition item. Once [...]

she wakes

She wakes in the middle of the night, delighted that her toes feel a tiny bit cold. Slivers of moonlight come through the window and rest on the bed. She arranges herself so that the moonlight falls on her face.
She dreams of spiders. Big spiders with legs like yellow wax beans. In her dreams she kills them easily.
She [...]

Life as a series of random numbers

On 9/9/09 I woke up at 1:11 and 3:23 a.m.
The relevance of this escapes me but some day it might be important.

Super comeback to the rescue

I just ran a few errands during lunch and guess what? The I’ve Got My Knickers in a Wrinkle Brigade is out and about. The acting President and Crank at Large was in the drycleaner’s. She was dropping off one of those chenille-type throws that you can buy at Target for $14. Hers was special because [...]

Trust me to think for myself

A former co-worker forwarded me an email today, criticizing the proposed health care plan. I  exchange Christmas cards with this woman but I haven’ t talked to her in a few years so I was kind of surprised that she didn’t even bother to ask about me or my family. Or my cats.
I believe her [...]

Oil can

Summer lethargy has set in.
I am depleted.
My body is a rusty machine. My brain shrivels. Soon it will be a raisin.

Something about the sun and the light

The sun has been hurting  my eyes.
The house is cool and dark, except in the kitchen, where the sun angles through the corner of the window. It reminds me of Iowa, even though I’ve never been there.
There’s a small pile of dirty dishes from the morning.  I throw away junk mail and feed the cats.
I feel like fashioning something with [...]

Like a watermelon falling off the back of a truck

I’m fairly trembling with energy.
My tiny chihuahua-sized cold isn’t stopping me.  
The weekend before I got my chihuahua sized cold, I had no energy. I languished by the TV watching the Food Network all weekend. “Such amazing people. They cook. Why does my face feel like it’s melting off?” 
This week I am my own HGTV/Food Network star.
Lots of [...]

I make sure to never have a point

I have no tales to tell. No reviews, no yarns, no funny anecdotes. Definitely no lengthy narratives about cleansing my physical space, in-betweenness, artistic journeys or nourishing my soul. Because stuff like that makes me kind of want to punch my pillow.
This is all I have.
Today 3 SunTrust employees told me to have a wonderful weekend. Two of [...]

Travel haikus May 10

I think I’d live in
Tinkertown just to tell folks
I’m from Tinkertown
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BFA thesis
illustrating the question
what is art is what?
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was it the cold wind
or empty campus sidewalks
causing nostalgia?
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