I am stressed out.
I won’t go into how much gray hair I have acquired and how much sleep I have lost and the stress source, but I will say that it is starting to reach TCSD proportions. No exaggeration.
One thing that TCSD taught me was that there is nothing worse than sitting [...]

To shake the crud-fest that has been this week, I bring you a poem from another favorite poet. Dedicated to ma puce, who has put up with my incessant whining through it all.
if i love You
(thickness means
worlds inhabited by roamingly
stern bright faeries
if you love
me) distance is mind carefully
luminous with innumerable gnomes
Of complete dream
if we [...]

Today, a lesson in fruit.
Here, we have the longan fruit.

While in Morocco, our little travel group fell ill to some stomach ailments. For days, I would sit grumpily, wondering when the churning in my innards would stop (sorry, TMI, I know). And then one day, as we were walking along the streets of [...]