I see things a little different. I see the halo around the sun when I should be seeing a puddle in a parking lot. I see the smile in the eyes if the mouth is smiling or not. I see the memory in the snow, not the individual flakes. I see unique personality instead of [...]

there are a few things that i haven’t seen for a while. as much as i am coming to love our home here in charleston, i miss the cool, the snow, the virginia rose-light, the empty trees rising into white-space sky, the in-between moments i forgot to notice during the bad times, which weren’t so [...]

I don’t want to say it, but I’ve been thinking it. I didn’t want to leave Virginia, didn’t want to come to here, with the summer heat, the bugs, the humidity that I was certain would frizz my hair beyond my control. I don’t want to admit that it’s getting under my skin, into my [...]

Summer nights come on after summer days, after the sky has revolted against the heat, boiling up and boiling over, flashing, splashing, roaring afternoon into cooler evening. Even day has had enough of itself. The moon rises full, cool blue light in the charcoal sky, and gives a gentle flare through summer haze – spiking [...]

I never wanted to be a military wife. In fact, I’m pretty darn sure I couldn’t be. I don’t know how Jo does what she does, or a few of my real life friends. The most waiting I want to do on a man is waiting out his commute home, and if I could suspend [...]

the couch, it’s just a couch. and me, I’m just dust. and so is she. she spread blue playdoh all over the cushion cover I just washed. i snapped at her on her birthday from behind my camera, trying for a shot like the one above – that i got anyway. a picture is just [...]

there is wild in the sky today wind cutting water – not rain – and then rain-soaked wind i cannot hold this feeling this rising fading rumble train passing on the other side light in dark and dark over light blue and black and green and purple restless passion thunder wakes me, breaks me, frees [...]