Category: 2013

  • Tryptophanatic

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 31, 2013 Shortly after my father is fired from Boeing in the early ‘70s along with half the rest of the workforce, he decides not to go back to work but stay at home instead, much to my mother’s great and lip-pursing chagrin. It’s a big enough house not to…

  • Dear Cat (from Hell)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 17, 2013 It’s nearly spring, my love. You are making snorfing sounds as you eat a dinner I made by hand, with chicken livers and turkey, oatmeal and carrots. A dinner the pressure-cooked steam of which requires the house to be aired out a bit, windows opened, candles burned. A…

  • Annotations of a life wish (from the poem by Nadine Stair)

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 3, 2013 If I had my life to live over (which I do, really, every time I roll out of bed onto a new day, every time I open a door, a portal, or even the tiny box on my dining room table I keep absolutely nothing in, every time…

  • Sins for dog lovers

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 17, 2013 MCW: [crossing herself on hard bench of confessional] Bless me father for I have … sinned. It’s been— Priest on duty: [interrupting] Not that long since you were here, my child [sighs]. What now? MCW: [blushing] Gee. Is that how you address sinners these days, with “What now?”…

  • Slouchy Sunday style blog

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, February 4, 2013 After walking around a lot the last few days, I had a lazy morning and wore just black yoga pants and a white T-shirt, kind of slouchy. Finally, I did get dressed for eggs Benedict downstairs and put on black fitted jeans from Aéropostale …. that I rolled…

  • Crucible year

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, January 20, 2013 Here’s a theory (I made it up): The theory is that every person has a crucible year, a year during which certain key elements come together and alchemize from the soft-ish stuff of undigested life into a brand new compound, a hard bright crystalline nugget through which all…