Category Archives: memory

Pastiche

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

In November, I began experimenting with scent memory and the effects of different musical styles to get me in the mood. Then there was a great and heavy sigh from my inner critic when I finally told her off, that … Continue reading →

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Throw Me Thursday: Coming undone

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

Small town curiosity shops hide grandmothers in pieces of felt, hat pins, antique jewelery made from woven hair, hand sewn lace, lilac sachets. Grandmothers with tangled hands and kaleidoscope eyes the size of herons peak through empty glass pop bottles … Continue reading →

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Throw me Thursday: Factory Girl

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

My husband found this picture lying on my desk after I’d gone on a rampage ruffling through drawers. “I throw you this for Thursday,” he said. It was Tuesday. He doesn’t do Twitter or Facebook or blog so I won’t … Continue reading →

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Throw me Thursday: Not to be seen

Posted on January 21, 2011 by

Twitter tenderfoot and local poetess @PrettyInkstain threw in, “@EVictoriaF #throwme ‘trying not to be seen.’” which works well with my favorite alien abductee and former nice lady @crredwards, “@PennyJars Prompts: Interruption. Apathy. Schadenfreude.” Of course he was trying not to … Continue reading →

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Throw me Thursday: Move

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

This belated Throw me Thursday post is written on behalf of my good friend Rebe who spent yesterday moving from one place in Denver to another. Cheers, Rebe! We had to get rid of the cat and the dog too … Continue reading →

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Throw me Thursday: Miscellaneous

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

The holidays are eating me up. The writing updraft of November has stilled into a deep, frozen hold and I feel I’ve nothing to say save for a few spare memories shaved off the sides. The following post is a … Continue reading →

Posted in big family, sister, it's my family anyway, brother, memory, Number 9, Throw me Thursday | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments

Throw me Thursday: Be the light

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

Penny Jar needs to lighten up a minute. The magnificent Kellie M. Walsh’s (AKA @kmwalsh with a blog) suggestion on the Facebook page was one word: Nyquil. I couldn’t pass it by. The Anarchist Cookbook. You know you wanted it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Freaks, friendship, High school, memory, penny jar, rebellion, Throw me Thursday | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

Somnambulant

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

Again I’m called back to the house in my sleep.  But I’m outside and the house is still red with white shutters.  It’s been painted the ugliest burnt sage for years now, even longer than years, decades.  We’ve been gone … Continue reading →

Posted in divorce, ma, memoir writing, memory, Project Placement, red house | Tagged , , , , , , | 18 Comments

A Box of Scent

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

I need a clove cigarette. Djarum Black, filtered, in the sexy, skinny box. And a pack of bidis wrapped in pink paper and string. I’m trying to go back, see, to a time and a place and I reckon smell … Continue reading →

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To liberate…

Posted on September 6, 2010 by

“He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine.  In a portrait, he must inscribe the character, and not the features, and must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or … Continue reading →

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