Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Last Tuesday in honor of my father being in town we had some extra people over for our weekly community dinner. Some of those extras were the Evans family. Before dinner Colton and I were looking out the back door and talking about our garden. He was impressed at how much we were able to [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 28th, 2009 7 Comments »
One of my goals for this vacation was to relax and recharge for the coming year. Another goal was to eat a pastaleo.
My grandmother was Puerto Rican as in her oldest sister was born in Puerto Rico and then the family immigrated. (Funny excursus- A staple of the Puerto Rican diet is pork. My grandfather [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
Long time readers may recall that this blog was originally founded with the idea of sharing our adventures, specifically in not going to college. It was about pioneering a new path, talking about what we learned on the way while doing this freaky odd thing that everyone thought was crazy. Gradually, it shifted to [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
As usual being in Erie sparked some blog post ideas. Rather than writing one big post about my recent vacation I thought I’d experiment with writing several vignettes. Maybe it will help me be more consistent about writing if I know I don’t necessarily have to write some long and interesting. If short and boring [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
miles of trees
I’m staring at a smear
on the window
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Aug 13th, 2009 3 Comments »
Our current roleplaying game is Apocalypse World. After some unspecified major disaster a couple generations ago, our characters are trying to eke out a living in one of many small pockets of civilization left in the city. Ours is in a parking garage.
My character is a goth ninja assassin chick named Midnight. She [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
tiny check box
‘remember me’
if only it were that easy
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 12th, 2009 No Comments »
ninety degrees
bouncing on the playground horse
she laughs
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 11th, 2009 No Comments »
warmish water spurts
from the drinking fountain
wind blows hair in my face
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Aug 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
a tiny river
sparkling across the asphalt
for once, I’m content