Category Archives: music

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 →

Posted in Creativity, memoir writing, memory, muse, music, wildness, writing | 8 Comments

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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Unequivocal

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

We are waiting for a storm. The winds are high and warm, all the spring birds sing a frantic chirrup as if playing chase in the voice of little girls. Then it quiets, cars are missing from the streets, the … Continue reading →

Posted in coffee, Dance, kids, music, Self-Reliance, truth, wildness | 13 Comments

Pause

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

We lost an old friend recently. His funeral was yesterday. While I certainly didn’t know him as well as many others I’m close to, there is a significant part of my story that has been altered. It’s hard to notice … Continue reading →

Posted in friendship, music, relationships, truth, wildness | 7 Comments

Humans I crave

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

“Human isolation is terrible. We want to connect and figure out what it means to write. ‘How do you live? what do you think?’ we ask the author. We all look for hints, stories, examples.”  –Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind I … Continue reading →

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What do Marla Singer, Punk-Gypsy-Cabaret and Watergate have in common?

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

It’s wild here tonight inside my head.  The kids are quiet, sleeping, blissful that I’ve worn them down to tired little nubs with our running and visiting and shopping on the perfectest of perfect days. I’ve nothing to do but … Continue reading →

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Presence

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

If you can, just for a moment, place yourself in quiet. Listen. Now tell me where did you go?

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Exercise #2 –Give me a memory of sound

Posted on March 29, 2010 by

Exercise # 2 When I turned 5 my second cousin Tony sent me a record in the mail.  It said, “Happy Birthday, Erin”, my first name.  It was a 45 and came in a square envelope with cartoon drawings of … Continue reading →

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Wanting–with love to Lorrie Moore

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

Growing up all you ever wanted was talent, to be big, to know you were somebody doing something important.  Kids really do believe they can be anything. You have to face up to reality though, life ain’t gonna put you … Continue reading →

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Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Posted on August 15, 2009 by

If you have ever ridden in the hatchback of a 1979 Chevrolet Chevette you must have been small, and you must have been me. What I remember clearly is someone having a great idea, the kind of idea that takes … Continue reading →

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