Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jan 25th, 2006 5 Comments »
Rather than post all my haiku (or haiku-ish-ness) in one big post, I’m going to choose one to post every day until I run out. Here’s the first one.
Winter raindrops
dripping
off twigs
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jan 25th, 2006 1 Comment »
I can’t believe he’s two already. Happy birthday, Noah!
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jan 24th, 2006 3 Comments »
So there I was on Sunday afternoon, trying to decide whether to nap or read, when I happened to glance down at my foot and see a smoking volcano. Two of the wrinkle lines in my foot intersected in such a way as to look exactly like a smoking volcano. Why this caught my [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Jan 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Last week sometime I finished the book I was reading and was unsure of what I wanted to read next. So I picked up a Winnie the Pooh book I had recently bought and set to reading. I come back to Pooh books every now and then and I still enjoy them as much as [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Not Much of Anything on Jan 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Ladies and Gentelmen, may I introduce a new member of our links. If you will kindly direct your attention to the right of the screen you might see a link entitled ‘Gabrielle’s Magical Notebook’. If you do not see this link it is no fault of mine. If you so desire please click on said [...]
Posted in Raquel on Jan 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
When I got my Palm Pilot, one of the things Gabrielle said was, “Now you won’t have to carry forty-seven notebooks around with you anymore.” I do use my Palm Pilot for writing down ‘real’ stories, but I still have an attachment to my notebooks, and find them indispensable for recording snippets that may someday [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Jan 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
This is another in the weepy series “They’re Getting So Big!” Last night I fed Justice some liquefied banana. I am not sure how much got into him, but there wasn’t much on him and there was less in the cup than when we started. When I finally ran out of patience Noah drank the [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Poems and Stories on Jan 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Once upon a time there was a man named Steven. I’m not sure why his name is Steven; it just felt right. This man named Steven worked in a giant building full of little boxes. Everyday he sat in a box and moved numbers he couldn’t touch. He knew it was important he moved those [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Poems and Stories on Jan 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
It is very difficult to harvest Skittles. Only pixies are light enough to walk on the rainbows, but as soon as a pixie picks a Skittle it becomes too heavy to stay on the rainbow. So there are gnomes stationed on the ground with baskets to catch the rain of pixies and Skittles. Other gnomes [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Poems and Stories on Jan 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
Today I drove home with fragments of half-remembered songs buzzing in my head. Try as I might I couldn’t find the rest of the song fragments. I could feel them floating just out of reach. So I stopped the van and built a ladder out of the song fragments I could grasp and climbed to [...]