Teeny Tiny Mantras
Today is Patti Smith.
Patti Smith - Horses (full studio version) (by Twentysixbillion)
Kind of stuck on this song.
Elvis Costello, “When It Sings” (by Iain Halliday)
may my heart always be open to little birds
who are the secrets of living… (by ee cummings)(photo by catene)
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I make playlists as a form of meditation
Columbus Archive
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Pimp walking ain’t easy
Posted on September 7, 2010 | 6 CommentsI wish I had gotten a better picture. He spun one heel on the blinding white floor and started heading in my direction. His left leg went into a deep... -
Andyman
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’ve run along the periphery of Columbus music for 16 or 17 years, and sometimes right through its center. I’ve written about it, talked about it, consumed it, even married... -
Let’s change the subject to breasts
Posted on June 30, 2010 | 2 CommentsI know I’ve been quiet since my brain dump a few weeks ago. Our “only way out is through” era continues with plenty of days that feel semi-normal, in spite... -
The art of being a kid
Posted on April 29, 2009 | 2 CommentsWe cracked two eggs a few weeks ago, separated the yolks into two bowls and added green food coloring to one, purple to another. Declan swirled a paintbrush in each... -
A blue state of mind
Posted on November 6, 2008 | 1 CommentI’m a staunch defender of Ohio. In my early twenties, I outgrew the need to see it as a geographic space somehow culturally inferior to others, or too stodgy for... -
The Confederate ghosts of my neighborhood
Posted on November 1, 2008 | 1 CommentIn the two weeks between closing on our house and moving in a couple of years ago, I had anxiety dreams about my neighborhood. Once home to Camp Chase, a... -
Stolen
Posted on October 21, 2008 | 7 CommentsOur Obama-Biden sign was stolen from our yard today. Looks like a couple of others on the block were as well. Bullies. Subscribe in a reader Copyright Tracy Zollinger Turner,... -
Freelance scare campaign for McCain
Posted on October 14, 2008 | 1 CommentMy mother found this sheet, tucked into a white envelope on her front door a couple of days ago. She lives in one of Columbus’ more affluent suburbs (Bexley) and... -
Small moments in democracy
Posted on September 29, 2008 | 5 CommentsYesterday, we hung out in the parking lot of an urban carryout, looking at the side wall of a restaurant called “Chicken Gem’s.” During the years we lived in this... -
Making tree forts out of high wind destruction
Posted on September 16, 2008 | 6 CommentsSo, this was supposed to be our first big week of preschool. But the back end of Ike sneaked up on Ohio and smacked us with 50-70 MPH winds for...
