October’s Eye

“A child looking at ruins grows younger but cold and wants to wake to a new name I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring walnut and may leaves the color of shoulders at the end of summer a month that has been to the mountain and become light there [...]

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Let’s Play With “A”: Anagrams and Acrostics

I still continue the family game night tradition with the nuclear family I’m creating on my own (which, at present, contains me, my moondoggy, our cats, and our friends). We love playing UNO, Clue, and other famous family fun board and card games! But, most of all, I love word games — Apples to Apples, [...]

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A BF Shaped Hole in the Universe

There have been a lot of comings and goings in the past few weeks, which have permitted little time to compose new posts, but there will be much forthcoming! A brief suitcase update: April B-F has just returned from sunny Myrtle Beach, SC and is busily unpacking and reorienting herself for the work week. Rachel [...]

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A Polemic on Listmaking

We are, between us, the following: One world traveler/grad-student-to-be/post-Brookylnite/post-post-Baltimorean/canvas shoe wearer/fledgling orthalogian/daily consumer of Americanized Mexican food One domestic cat-lady-in-waiting/psychiatric rehabilitation specialist/counselor/fledgling harpist/wannabe philatelist/incredibly redundant wordsmith/potential theology student We are both cheeky. And avid coffee swindlers. And, of course, obsessive list-makers. Once in a seminar/training, titled “Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: The Cornell Model,” I was asked [...]

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