Category Archives: Uncategorized

When Trees Walk Home With You

Posted on October 6, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Tree Once I was almost evicted from a dinner party because of trees.   In a beautiful house in an old leafy town outside Chicago.   I was sad that whole sorry decade because of trees and what people … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

The Raining Sun

Posted on September 28, 2016 by O

Cold this morning, especially earlier in bedroom.   Too lazy to get the comforter out or another blanket– there was no blanket– laundry backup.   In the dark I rummaged in the linen closet for something—  a duvet cover and threw it … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Bus Stop Stories, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Dilemma of Dismay

Posted on September 27, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Dilemma Dilemma.  Sounds like a nineteenth century word, to describe a feeling you might have, at the prospect of tea with the wrong person, wearing the wrong kind of hat, whose gloves are slightly soiled at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bus Stop Stories, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Panic Street

Posted on September 24, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Panic Read the news or don’t read the news. There’s panic in the air.  Shootings, shootings, shootings.  On the streets.  In malls, movies, churches. Little dead things in the garage.  Tiny pink with bulging blue eyes like … Continue reading →

Posted in Bus Stop Stories, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

“Let Them Eat Cake”

Posted on September 9, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Cake All your childhood dreams on a platter, the fluffy whipped cream clouds of pink, the dainty roses in the garden. And who do you have to thank for these fantasies? A French man perhaps, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Eating, Drinking, Cooking, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt: Fierce

Posted on August 31, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Fierce Fierce.  Like the maw of a lion.  The sun, this summer has been.  Beating down so relentlessly I want to jump into its mouth and fry like those little crisps you eat there in that cold … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt: Mistake

Posted on August 27, 2016 by O

via Daily Prompt: Mistake Mistake?  My whole life is a mistake.  My mind my thoughts my hands feet hair and face. I am my own black hole hurtling coming being existing in the nothingness that is my space. I sit … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Oh Garden! Garden! Garden!

Posted on July 16, 2016 by O

I can hardly move my hands across the keyboard, breathe, speak or walk.  Much less explain, tell what I see this morning in this little plot of land I have been graced with. Got up late — past 7:00 a.m., … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

When Hummingbirds Drink Too Much

Posted on July 11, 2016 by O

Thursday I came home from work and there was a fly buzzing around the kitchen.  I grabbed a tissue, dampened it a bit and ran around the kitchen chasing the fly.  Got it. Then I saw another one, ran around … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Eating, Drinking, Cooking, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Beware of June: Too Much Wine, Too Much Happiness, Too Many Flowers

Posted on June 4, 2016 by O

  Today is June 2 and I am sitting in my garden about 4:45 p.m.  I am drinking my second glass of La Joie de Poulpe, a wine made for enjoying summer, sun and octopus  (from the label notes).  Calamari!  … Continue reading →

Posted in Always the Garden, Eating, Drinking, Cooking, Uncategorized | 1 Comment