Phillippe Petit, Anything Can Happen After Horace, Odes, I, 34 Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter Will mostly wait for cl...

I participated in a webinar today with a national epilepsy group for which I've worked for many years. The guests were Josh Stanley ...

C.J. Jung fills a kettle in his workshop We were about halfway to school when Noah, who was sitting in the front seat, put his finger o...

Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the Cat in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" I know ya'll think of me as the Ellen Burstyn character in ...

I've posted the above photo of Ellen Burstyn as the diet pill-addicted mother in the creepy movie Requiem for a Dream  a number of ti...

I think I'm celebrating my fiftieth birthday until the Virgoan era is over on September 22nd. Today, my dearest in the whol...

Here's Sophie, playing on the iPad with Saint Mirtha. It's Saturday and it's hot here in the southland. Oliver and I got up ...

Allow me a political rant. Humor my thinking out loud, my perhaps ignorant, inchoate thoughts. If you don't allow it or don...

Yosemite, 2009 I can't stop thinking about these lines of Walt Whitman's: I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing I sa...

I'm not going to write a whole post about what it's like having three children in three different schools, one child being compl...

Yesterday was a day where parenting, politics, poetry, disability and despair intersected (see the title of this blog above), but I won'...

It's been all day, heat, talk, family, rattling chains, a cage. You don't have a single wrinkle, the aesthetician said, the li...

Here is my Syrian grandfather and his family, in the early part of the twentieth century. I don't know whether they had left Syria, yet...

especially for Sally M. Kiki di Montparnasse, Therese Treize de Caro et Lily Brassai, 1932 via dreamdogsart Hallelujah. H...