Visible Woman

I used to love leaning into a six-foot-long tilted board lighted garishly and covered with lots of lights and rubber bumpers and roll overs ...

I am sitting here with a cup of coffee, typing on my blue tooth keyboard on my iMac (a physically pretty computer that hasn't lived up t...

When someone is ill, people pray, send good thoughts, send cards and letters, visit, call, bring food. bring plants and flowers and other pr...

My dad had some news about his health issues today. But it wasn't the first, or even the second, thing that he talked about when I calle...

"Hullo!" My dad said strongly. "How are you this morning?" I asked. "Better. I haven't got my paper, but it...

As the new year approaches, it's time to wrap up the holidays. It's time to put away the box of left over cards from our holiday mai...

Days slip away, but some little mementos yank us back to another time and place. Today's Holidailies writing prompt is "Tell us a ...

This moment...is gone now. Life is fragile and fleeting. Even the most solid things turn out to be ephemeral or change before our eyes. We a...

Detail from Black and Blue Christmas Shop Window at Black Mail on South Congress. We all have fond memories of holidays. Special times, spec...

Looking for inspiration this morning I looked at Holidailies prompts and one was 'five years ago.' I didn't get too inspired abo...

Today's Holidailies Writing Prompt is "Tell us why/how you started the website where you're participating for Holidailies....

Strange doings on the computers, visitors at Dad's, going to a party on the wrong day, falling behind with chores, looking toward tax se...

I had an impromptu dinner with a friend the other night and said to her: "Oh, there was this great gift I didn't buy you today. It ...

I love to eat. Whether it's cheap Tex-Mex (photo: Aranda's Taqueira, 2005) or fine dining. I eat all veggies. I love steamed fresh B...

The picture? The window of a tanning salon in France, 2004. The subject of the day? Medical care, medical insurance, reform, cures, old age...

One of the Holidailies writing prompts was "Tired of Santa? Create your own iconic magical figure for the holidays." Writing prom...

I wish I were out taking a walk on a bright, cool day. I took this from the Pfluger Pedestrian bridge last Sunday. I was walking back from Z...

Do you ever feel like you aren't completely present in your life? Like you are entering a new phase where you are adjusting to new reali...

Take something away and then you appreciate it, right? Actually, I like to think I was appreciating things right along in the moment. I was ...

Gift-giving is so fraught. You wrap something up in beautiful paper (or use those ever-handy gift sacks with some bright tissue) and you imb...