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
family Archive
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I guess I picked the wrong night to fall asleep at nine
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 3 CommentsMy mom broke into bedtime last night to deliver “good news and bad news” to me. Apparently we are descendants of early U.S. settler Richard Treat, which means that we... -
This inverted life
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 19 CommentsI wish I felt comfortable writing my way through this time. I’d like to tell you about the fact that my son and I have been living at my mother’s... -
Goulash
Posted on August 4, 2009 | 1 CommentDeclan is upstairs, singing along to an extended disco remix of Donna Summer’s “I Will Live for Love” that someone has set to a video parade of stellar objects on... -
The six-year-old anesthesiologist
Posted on July 23, 2009 | 2 CommentsI’ve been helping my mother clear out her office this month, where the shelves are bursting with materials about art education and family history. It is no small project. This... -
I Wanna Rock With You: The Michael Jackson memory filter
Posted on June 25, 2009 | 3 CommentsI never had my own pair of roller skates with hand-made pink baby pom-pons draped over the laces. I don’t remember wanting them. The scuffed gray rentals with faded red... -
Life on the farm
Posted on May 24, 2008 | No CommentsHere’s a public radio story about my brother’s farm, featuring my lovely sister-in-law, her mother and my beautiful and whip-smart niece, Madeline: click. Subscribe in a reader Copyright Tracy Zollinger... -
The road South
Posted on April 7, 2008 | 2 CommentsWe made our way to Charlotte this weekend, where on Friday we ate a meal, took Dec to Urgent care because he had the painful Nursemaid’s elbow (he’s never had... -
Powdaddy
Posted on January 10, 2008 | 1 CommentHe was the father of five children, husband to my grandmother for 61 years, a highly regarded surgeon, a farm boy, an inventor, a World War II veteran and the... -
The specter of cousin Eugene, part two
Posted on December 2, 2007 | 4 CommentsContinued from this post. I’ve subscribed to a variety of developmental newsletters ever since the week I found out I was going to be a mother. During my pregnancy, I... -
The relationship funhouse effect
Posted on November 24, 2007 | 3 CommentsThis quote came up on the e-discussion group for my local Buddhist temple today: “In every relationship, between you and the other person there are actually six people involved: 1....
