May 10, 2015

A Mothers Day Rant (because that’s how I roll)

I was so busy yesterday that I didn’t visit Facebook until late at night, after sorting nearly a month’s worth of mail and paying bills and balancing the checkbook and updating the budget and helping Zoe finish her poetry project and tidying up the house and getting cleaned up and going to Latin Vespers and dinner to honor a teacher who retired after 51 years of teaching Latin and Greek at which I photographed the honoree and his family.

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March 26, 2015

It’s Bunion Week!

So here I am, four days past surgery (is that right? let’s see…surgery was Monday morning…Tuesday, Wednesday, now we’re on Thursday…does the surgery day count as a day? it should because it was at 6 o’clock in the freakin’ morning) and it’s time for an update. It’s Bunion Week here at Latent Images, so buckle up! (Warning: there’s cursing involved, which shouldn’t surprise any of you who know me.)

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March 21, 2015

Bits and pieces that don’t add up to squat

I haven’t been writing much anywhere lately. Too busy having fun and getting ready for surgery. I’ve been reading a lot, though, which is also good for the brain, and jotting notes down for the story I’m working on and the one I want to write next.

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March 4, 2015

A crisis of faith, or maybe just a crisis of idiocy

Every once in awhile shitty things happen (well, shitty things are done by shitty people, they don’t just happen…okay sometimes they just happen but yesterday was not an “accident with no culpability” day but a “people can be boneheads” kind of day) and it affects my faith life. I have to remind myself to not get God all wrapped up in what fallible, imperfect people here on earth do or say. When The Church infuriates me, I have to remind myself that The Church isn’t God. As much as it likes to pretend it is.

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February 8, 2015

Writer and Author

I’m reading a lot about writing right now. About the right place and the right mood and the right subject. I’m reading so much about writing that I’m not writing a damn thing.

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January 21, 2015

Petit fours

Zoe loves to hear about the day she was born. I tell her about how we rose super-early to get ready to go to the hospital, about how I couldn’t see my own feet as I took my last shower during pregnancy. She knows that I was nervous and scared, but more excited that I’ve ever been. She knows that Daddy drove us through the dark to the hospital, and that we checked in during the quiet, early hours when it feels like no one else is awake in the whole world. I tell her the highlight reel of her entry into this world, the very best parts that make that day so special.

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