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You rite baby, you rite
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsWhile listening to the new Dr. John record in the car the other evening, Declan and I had the following conversation: Declan: Mom, who is this? I feel like I’ve... -
Hope & death & Patti Smith
Posted on April 12, 2012 | 2 CommentsAt the beginning of the year, I made the aspiration to read fewer Buddhist and self-help books. I bought and started Just Kids by Patti Smith, but I didn’t get... -
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... -
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... -
I’m Thinking of Joining This Caravan
Posted on May 17, 2010 | No CommentsCaravan of Love Have you seen this wandering tribe? Since they are a caravan, I assume they are wandering and not still standing on this golf course lined with rainbow... -
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... -
Awesome thing my son said, #11,987
Posted on March 19, 2009 | 3 CommentsA few weeks ago, he met a little girl named Lucy on the playground. He looked at her wide-eyed, then leaned over to me and asked: “Mommy… she’s not the... -
The 3-year-old photojournalist
Posted on March 18, 2009 | 1 CommentAs promised, here are some of the photos that Declan took at his dad’s gig the other evening: Subscribe in a reader Copyright Tracy Zollinger Turner, Tinymantras.com, 2009. Related Posts:Forget... -
Beginnings of a solar system magnum opus
Posted on February 15, 2009 | 1 CommentWe’ve had a concert here all morning yesterday. It featured extended thoughts about all the planets in our solar system, but we had to listen to it through the bedroom... -
My brain hurts
Posted on November 17, 2008 | 4 CommentsLast night, Dan and I went out to see Citizen Cope. Since we were told (on what we thought was good authority) when the show would start, we thought we...






