Book Review: Last Dance with Annie by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Elise is a 40-some year-old mother of a college-aged son and high-schooler daughter whose eating disorder finds her in an inpatient EDU (eating disorder unit) after starving herself to the point of being at death’s door. Elise’s husband, Tony, a VietNam Veteran and now Navy recruiter,…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Poetry Postcard Festival 2024 (aka POPO2024) Three Days Left to register!
Postcard created by Paul Nelson, one of the co-founders of Poetry Postcard Festival Anyone who has read my blog for awhile knows I have participated in the annual poetry postcard festival for the last 3 years. Kerfe got me interested in it, and once I did it I was hooked. How it works is you…
Doodads — pics from past week
Some pics taken last Sunday when the fam and I went to the lake and then for ice cream afterwards. The grandbaby loved “swimming” in Lake Michigan and spent most the time in a shallow pool. The next pic of the kousa dogwood tree in blossom were taken at the dentist. It took some finagling…
#FF — Almost Like Home
PHOTO PROMPT©Dale Rogerson Almost Like Home I creep from the unruly lot just before dawn and return just past dusk. I’ve been squatting in the space that’s been boarded-up and taped-off since my pal, Minnie, got strangled in there a few years back. I make sure not to disturb the greenery as I come and…
24 SSPC 40 (2nd week) The Summer Solstice (June 21 – July 6) Geshi — Theater of Summer Storm
“There is something about the summer / That makes me moody” – “Summer Mood,” Best Coast Theater of Summer Storm Grumble, timpani preamble. Afterwards, listen. There.Wind rustles dust-dulled leaves; skin-tickling mist isblessed, petrichor aura, portends of somethingthat needs lightning’s stage. Something aboutto burst forth; wringing clouds’ torrents upon thebrick ground and drooping stems of summer.Droplets,…
power restored (was: power still out)
After midnight Monday storms knocked out power for ~150k people and as of now mines still out. Tried to sign in yesterday with what I thought was my password but it was rejected multiple times before I gave up. Why it works now is a mystery. I’m sure food in fridge and freezer is spoiled…
The Oracle Speaks — gorgeous day
smoothest to saythese black mists shineand dream deliriously,pound sweet honey stormin play, to crush and useour lathered blood as lake.a summer, sordid as love,licks me through music’sgorgeous day magnet poetry original kit top image originally found here
Tao Talk 