Skip to content

Tag Archives: dreams

obama in my dreams

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The last couple of nights my dreams have been incredibly vivid, and frankly I’m annoyed. Usually I sleep like a baby. Not my baby. But someone’s baby. So the night before last, a group of us was being hunted. We found ourselves in an apartment waiting for the killers. I think I might have slipped [...]

Filed in Parenthood, Plum Poetic | Also tagged , | Comments (7)

goodnight, mr. president

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Simon is dancing Elsie to sleep while I sit here contemplating my new president. Okay, yours too, Elsie Melsie Pelsie. I missed the live inaugural coverage, but am making up for it by watching five hours of coverage tonight. Anderson Cooper has promised to provide me with the full emotion of the day. I imagine [...]

Filed in Parenthood | Also tagged , | Comments (3)

a little bit of gratitude

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Suddenly feel overwhelming gratitude. Grateful for the baby lying beside me, exploring her new soother and practicing her smile. The music in the background making me weepy, like one of those relationship movie soundtracks announcing ‘everything shall be well.’ Grateful that my dream for Elsie is still intact. Seeing that homeless man in Santa Monica [...]

Filed in Uncategorized | Also tagged | Comments (1)

6 enigmas

Friday, August 1, 2008

Attempting to cut the neck of a dive suit. The directions read: “The edge of the collar must be parallel to the circumference of the neck.” What? Parallel to the circumference…is that even possible? We lob the image around in our minds, but ultimately are left puzzling. The Girl Who Learned To Kneel. Who precisely [...]

Filed in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)