I am headed to Edinburgh again this August to attend the Fringe Festival and I am super excited about it! This is an amazing event and environment, buzzing with creative energy and interesting people. Went last year with a group of friends and we are going again. The composition of our group has changed, but…
Intimate Inanimate Objects
I am reflecting on how inanimate objects can become Intimate, and the kind of Things that really matter to me. I’m not a terribly sentimental person. I get attached to objects that perfectly serve their purpose and please my senses. I have some things that are decorative or just remind me of good things, but…
Shredding Memories for Recycle – 500 Word Story
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Not Writing
I am not writing here. I want to be. I think of doing it quite often. Topics come and go, whole paragraphs get composed and then I don’t sit down and write. Why not? I can think of lots of reasons, many true and valid. Most of my Executive Function gets chewed up at work…
Summoning Self-Confidence – 100 Word Story
I entered a micro-fiction writing contest with NYC Midnight back in April, wrote and submitted a piece. This was my first attempt at micro-fiction. I found it to be an interesting space between poetry and prose, having to let go of some grammatical conventions while remaining clear and the careful selection of words was quite…
Micro-Fiction Writing Challenge
I have a goal be more creative and start writing again so I am participating in a micro-fiction writing contest! There are 5,452 writers participating in 92 groups, 59 writers per group. Wow! Feeling kinda nervous and pretty much assuming I will not advance to round two since I have never done this before, but…
Don’t let the perfect stand in the way of the good
I’ve been doing that. I am resolved to stop it. I have a long time friend who is a prolific personal blogger. Been reading her posts and I feel inspired by her practice. I should will just write here, write what I’m thinking about without requiring it being constructed, composed or perfected. Some pieces will…
Sweet Sister
I am old enough to have had close intimate relationships with a few people over several decades. Dear and special people whose relationship with me has survived the shifts and changes of my life. People that I love deeply but have fallen out of touch with as our lives have diverged energetically or geographically. I…
Small Intimacies
Today I got my hair colored and cut and had a lovely gossip with my long time hair dresser, a thing I do every six weeks or so to maintain my queer hair and flag appropriately. I always feel good after that and it was a beautiful summer day when I emerged onto the Newbury…
Intimacy at Fringe
I am going to the Fringe festival in Edenborough Scotland in August. I am very excited about it. I have wanted to attend this event for many years and a variety of things have conspired to make it possible this year… friends who went last year and are going again, my new knee is installed…