Crazy (in love)

Can you be sane in all other aspects of your life  -- and crazy in love?

http://open.salon.com/blog/nocheapshots/2012/06/25/guys_romance_and_the_sanity_defense

Hunger

It is an equivocal gift you give me

The generosity of a stranger

Forgetting was most convenient.

Awaking though not for the coward

Flooded I am

with the taste of days 

gone in which I was 

a part of 

world larger than this quiet byway.

Foot struck tile

Arms out

Whirling down the nave

Recollecting too

Counterpoint in 17th-century time

In the library near Julliard

A girl not yet a woman

Dreams she sees

Nijinsky dance

Diaghilev live

In the stacks in Lincoln Center

She lifts her head for a moment

Hears the music, the dance

L'apres-midi 

it is...then.

What is to come

for the woman who does not dance

or raise her voice in sweet polyphonic madrigals?

Methinks she can still hear.

Fear

Writhing
Gravity pins me here
The stuff of nightmare
Yet I do not wake
Each window glued shut
Was ever open?
Enemies collaborators
Collaborators opponents
It used to be that moments of relief
Allowed gaze elsewhere
Distracted
Peace enough to
sleep
To walk
To smile
Now turmoil
Fare
Unfair
Yet mine 

Katie in the 'hood....

My review of this quirky, interesting, very Philadelphia book by local writer Katie Haegele on her family, her 'hood, and her passion for...yard sales!

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/20120610_Rummaging_through_life_with_Katie_Haegele_rsquo_s__White_Elephants_.html

Saying goodbye to all that

Sometimes, as a parent, new beginnings feel like endings...

http://open.salon.com/blog/nocheapshots/2012/06/12/i_dont_know_why_you_say_goodbye

When I am broken...

What is your crutch?

http://open.salon.com/blog/nocheapshots/2012/06/05/yes_my_faith_is_a_crutch

Better than March Madness

How a former colleague of mine (it's his fault that I'm known as "machine-gun Lizzie") turned a dream into a reality by winning the Wal-Mart Get on the Shelf contest.  And all to pursue his dream of clean water for the world's children...

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/660705_Column--Realizing-a-dream-for-Humankind.html