so when exactly was it determined that we want ordinary people in the white house? it was dad-gum embarrassing to hear clips of sarah palin’s “goshdarnit this” and “doggonit that” during the american veep debate last week. do her handlers truly think america wants/needs elly-may clampett a heartbeat away from the oval office? the whole […]
Spatherdab
for all the rude people
when i was in grade 6 i loved those alfred hitchcock collections full of murder mysteries and quirky tales of the macabre. so when john lavallee offered to swap me a 50-cent paperback hitchcock anthology for a bic pen, i didn’t waste any time saying yes. the book featured lots of neat dark stories … […]
after all, it was you and me
i wore my partner’s garden faux-Crocs to work today. only partly because it is joyously hot and i’m growing weary of socks; mostly because i was half asleep when I walked out the door. still kinda sticky and buzzing from the opening night of folkfest. conscious enough, however, to remember to grab the headphones & […]
the joy of not working
i’m quickly coming up on the one-year anniversary of quitting my job in order to write and paint full-time. as expected, the bank account is not being fed nearly as frequently, but the soul is thriving. a few years ago, inspired by ernie zelinski, the edmonton-based author of the joy of not working, i composed […]
(w)rite by the river
wimmin’s words from the SAGA sessions at wynne’s august 2006, with gratitude from this week i take rivers, mountains, loaded guns, lampshades and one dim bulb frou-frou little foreigners and wide-eyed jewish sisters seeking shelter hope and little green apples joy harjo and joan baez three matches a wedding dress from a junk store a […]
miss e
she landed in our cornfield. not, like you may have heard, in the bermuda triangle or somewhere in the pacific, but in a soft patch in auntie’s north 40. and she liked it so much, she just stayed. our house was small, and nothing fancy; just some wood and brick and not even indoor plumbing […]
she’s tired
of harper / bush / cheney / afghanistan / winter / whiners / iraq / iran / china / heath ledger / heathrow / death row / deadbeats / dieters / britney / bertuzzi / barrack / hillary / banks / cellulite / transfats / SUVs / brand names / bran / brain-dead baristas who […]