Whistling for Moonbeams

I departed from my usual greens-and-wheat bread-and-proteins diet today. Ate lasagna (I had one plate and finished the portion my son had le...

What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant, and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its p...

Tell me about your childhood. Tell me about what you woke up to each day, and what woke you up. What time on your clock? Were your sheets so...

A friend shared this video on his facebook. "Gethsemane" is my favorite song from "Jesus Christ, Superstar" (1973). One ...

She looked up, her gaze fixing on me. Her eyes had a guarded look to them, which soon, however, assumed an intensity that she, perhaps, coul...

"Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument." -author unknown

For the past several days, I've been feasting on greens (with Caesar as my preferred dressing) and whole wheat bread. (I don't eat i...

Drat, I can't find the Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo essay I had been meaning to base this post on. I skimmed through her Coming Home , which...

I have just discovered, today, that James Merrill was a Pisces. He would have turned 84 this coming March 3rd. from "The Broken Home...

LOSSES It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before In the routine crashes-- and our fields Called up the papers, ...

I bought my daughter her second pair of gladiator sandals last Saturday. She loved them, of course--she seems to love everything I get for h...

You know how there are topics that we avoid, words, even, or names that we try so hard not to utter in conversations, both with someone else...

But if I ever found myself where you are now, would I be able to stand up and move forward? And do you think you could retrace the steps I t...

And the snapshots, of course. The times that I looked at the ten or so pictures which my mom put in an album, my mind registered a blank, an...

Last Saturday, I received what was probably one of the best news via text message that I've gotten in a long, long while: AN ENTIRE WEEK...

...and i knew then it would be a life long thing but i didn't know that we we could break a silver lining and i'm so sad like a good...

If you were falling, then I would catch you You need a light, I'd find a match Cuz I love the way you say good morning And you take me t...

scatters shadows on the streets: a tree here a bramble there and shrubs or someone walking--

to fill our days with something, some thing, anything-- did we waste time?

Then there was that time when she, thirteen years old and sulking, refused to eat her meals but for a few bites, staring, instead, out the w...

Choose the best answer: a) be happy b) sulk

My dad called me up a couple of days ago to remind me of how sedentary my lifestyle is--up to and including the nature of my work--and the d...

How cheerless are these lines? The rain is falling and it is awfully dark outside. It’s two forty in the afternoon and yet it seems like twi...

from NewYorker.Com: Critics fretted about the growing self-enclosure of Salinger’s work, about a faith in his characters’ importance that so...

In some subliminal effort to get to the next page, or step into that twelve-or-forty-eight--hours-later moment, we fidget and tinker and blu...

I love marching bands. They make me happy. And, oh, yeah: the louder, the better. I especially love the tuba; it's quite magnificent. Ye...

So, Kathryn Bigelow has edged out ex-hubby James Cameron for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Saturday's Directors' Guild Awa...

You gotta rise up, little sister Turn on the light Wise up to the stories you've been told 'Cause love don't come in black or wh...

But why does it need to come, at all, in the first place? And for no apparent reason? Or does this happen only to some people? You know, the...

All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anyw...

Jerome David Salinger , January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010: Literary giant, Holden Caulfield's creator, recluse, icon. Read the story he...

is really something else. We were texting just this afternoon and I was telling him about my unusually busy (not that it's ever been not...

I don't think any other kind of worry can equal that of a mother's for her sick child. Thank you, God, for making Kim well.

"And if, by chance, that special place that you've been dreaming of leads you to a lonely place, find your strength in love." ...

This morning, I woke up with a headache, probably because I've been sleeping piecemeal for the past two days. I should probably hydrate....

The trouble with pleasure is the timing it can overtake me without warning and be gone before I know it is here it can stand facing me unrec...

Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates , 1981 Thanks, Mr. K !

So, Kathryn Bigelow is James Cameron's ex-wife. Interesting fact. Guess too much genius does split a unit into two. Anyway, had an inter...

--blanknesses that stretch into miles, empty silences that roll upward to crests and fall down to plateaus, ending in emptiness, always empt...

A lot of folks who saw "500 Days of Summer" had said it was a great movie. I had little motivation to catch it, but since its fame...

There are movies that make you roll over with laughter, movies that make you bawl like a baby or weep like a young boy whose heart was broke...

you are brought out of your invisible bubble and the jarring din of the people around you rushes into your quiet like a sudden stream. Just ...

me: can you give me a moment? friend: A moment to what? me: A thought just occurred to me which I think is worth typing down. friend: Ok. wh...

I held the glossy in my hand and pursed my lips, thinking, wouldn't I be better off buying a book of poems, instead? I spent the rest of...

Reading Roger Ebert's Best Films of The Decade and seeing Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" (2009) in the list (in the...

(published 1997)