My grandmother was a generous woman. With only a 6th grade education, she managed to pull herself out of the poverty of rural Georgia to study for her hairdresser’s license and run her own business. Later she would work at Gracewood State School and Hospital helping those she saw as less fortunate than herself. Elise [...]
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PRACTICE — My Grandmother – 15+min
Posted in Bones, Death, Family, Growing Older, Life, Memoir, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Secrets, Writing Practices, tagged childhood memories, family legacies, family memories, fear & fearlessness, ghosts of the past, granddaughters, grandmothers, importance of grandmothers, influence of grandmothers, living with the past, mothers and daughters, one's own home-ghosts, regrets, tenderness, writing about grandmothers on March 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
PRACTICE: My Grandmother – 15min
Posted in Family, Love, Memoir, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged childhood memories, granddaughters, grandmothers, importance of grandmothers, influence of grandmothers, namesakes, what's in a name, writing about grandmothers on March 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Her name was Romey. Not her real name. Romey was her nickname, the name on her checks. Where she was from you could use your nickname in your checkbook. She carried a leather purse, hard leather tooled with elaborate scenes. A man on a horse or flowers set among borders. I think she had more [...]
Popsicle Shadow
Posted in Everyday Art, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Laughing, Photography, Place, Practice, Wake Up, tagged coffee shops, color symbolism, Diamonds Coffee Shoppe, objects, orange, shadows & light, the power of objects, vaults, vintage, vintage lamps on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Popsicle Shadow, inside the vault at Diamonds Coffee Shoppe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Popsicle shadow lights up old Diamonds bank vault not an inside job -posted on red Ravine, Sunday, March 29th, 2009 -related to: haiku 2 (one-a-day), Diamonds & Light (Summer Solstice), and the Vintage Series
Two Degrees Of Celebrity Sighting
Posted in Culture, Family, Laughing, Life, On the Road, Photography, Random, Relationships, Secrets, tagged celebrity fixation, celebrity wannabe, Drew Lashea, Jerry Rice, Jessica Simpson, Nick Lashea, pathetic celebrity sightings, six degrees of separation, Tony Romo on March 26, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I am so obsessed with celebrity that even though I don’t know who this man is—my sisters and niece tell me he is famous—I am posting his photo on the blog. And not only is he famous—he is retired NFL player Jerry Rice, used to play for the San Francisco 49ers—but because he was runner-up in [...]
dreaming of Georgia haiku
Posted in Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Skies, Wake Up, tagged ancestors, ancestry, following your dreams, Georgia, researching memoir, St. Simons Island, summer in Georgia on March 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The White Chair, St. Simons Island, Georgia, July 2008, all photos © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. white chair on hard sand pale footprints leading nowhere dreaming of Georgia Post Script: I had a dream about Georgia last night, swimming with the Ancestors. It reminded me of this beach at St. Simons where Liz, [...]
Layoffs — On Becoming A National Statistic
Posted in 25 Things, Bones, Culture, Holding My Breath, Money, Personal, Photography, Practice, Structure, Wake Up, Work, tagged becoming a statistic, continue under all circumstances, coping with job loss, fear & fearlessness, glass half empty, glass half full, job loss statistics, layoff statistics, living as artists & writers, living with layoffs, make positive effort for the good, making a living, Minnesota job losses, money & stress, not being tossed away, optimism, silver linings, the gift of time, time, writing about jobs on March 24, 2009 | 54 Comments »
Close Gates, elevator shaft outside Diamonds Coffee Shoppe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. On Friday, February 27th, 2009, I became a national statistic — I lost my job. Like most writers, I write for a living. I also have a part-time bread and butter job that helps pay [...]
Aunt Annie’s Scalloped Oysters
Posted in Essay, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Place, Topic Writing, tagged Bob Chrisman, childhood foods, childhood memories, comfort food, excavating memories, family memories, Family Recipes, food and culture, food memories, red Ravine Guests, scalloped oyster casserole, the 1940s, the value of photographs, Velveeta, Velveeta recipes, writing about food on March 23, 2009 | 71 Comments »
By Bob Chrisman Here’s to you, Aunt Annie!, image © 2009 by Bob Chrisman. All rights reserved. A cup of tea with sugar brings back memories of my first cup, the day my mother said, “You’re old enough to drink tea.” Sacks of pale orange “circus peanuts” remind me of the stale ones in [...]
Saturday Morning Musings (About Nothing Much)
Posted in Body, Culture, Dreams, Film / TV / Video, Life, Personal, Random, Structure, Vision, tagged alcohol cravings, breaking bad habits, computers, Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover, getting songs stuck in your head, Gilligan's Island, giving up alcohol, limiting computer usage, making your dreams happen, Paul Simon, realizing your dreams, TV theme songs on March 21, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Breaking Bad Behavior I’ve skipped my usual evening beer these past several nights. I get the craving right about 6, and if I’m cooking dinner (like I was last night) the craving is especially strong to drink a cold bottle of beer while I’m whipping up the chicken tenders and potatoes. But by the time we [...]
WRITING TOPIC — GRANDMOTHERS
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Family, Growing Older, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Quotes, Relationships, Writers, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged American poets, childhood memories, excavating memories, family history, family memories, fish, fish out of water, Frank Gehry, Georgia, granddaughters, grandmothers, grandsons, images of fish, importance of grandmothers, influence of grandmothers, inspiration, Knoxville, mentors, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Mulvaney Street, Nikki Giovanni, poets, sculpture, Standing Glass Fish, Tennessee, the 1950's, the 1960's, the value of photographs, Walker Art Center, Washington Road, writing about grandmothers on March 19, 2009 | 42 Comments »
Grandmama Elise On Washington Road, Augusta, Georgia, August 23rd, 1958, photo © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. What do you remember most about your grandmother? Was she tall, thin, short, heavy? Or maybe she changed shape over the course of your lifetime. Do you remember what she smelled like, or the color of her hair? [...]
A Celebration Of GREEN On red Ravine…
Posted in 25 Things, Animals & Critters, Art, Body, Culture, Doodling, Everyday Art, Fotoblog, Great Places To Write, Holidays, Laughing, Life, Nature, Photography, Seasons, Word Of The Day, Writing Topics, tagged 4 leaf clover, gargantuan green, green, Happy St. Patrick's Day, it's not easy being green, living green, St. Patrick's Day, Think Green, writing about green on March 17, 2009 | 25 Comments »
In honor of St. Patty’s Day… a sampling of GREEN on red Ravine _________________________________________________________________ GREEN Scene Posts Green Is As Green Does Silent Green Gargantuan Green _________________________________________________________________ GREEN Machine Posts The Ten Secrets Of Green Gangrene Isn’t Green, Is It? Yo Mama’s Green _________________________________________________________________ GREEN Queen Posts Can You Believe I [...]
Every Party Has A Pooper. This Pooper Has A Wine Allergy.
Posted in Body, Essay, Fotoblog, Growing Older, Jugular, Life, Personal, Photography, Secrets, Wake Up, tagged addictions, alcohol craving, alcoholism, Annie Greensprings, apple wine, Boone's Farms, Casa Rodeña winery, cheap wines, drinking problems, dry wines, giving up alcohol, Liebfraumilch, liquor intolerance, pop wines, sweet wines, wine allergy, wine allergy symptoms, wine tasting on March 16, 2009 | 37 Comments »
Forbidden Fruit, range of wines to be tasted at Casa Rodeña in Albuquerque’s north valley, March 2009, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. My definition of torture: A half day off from work to go to a company-sponsored wine-tasting event. God, am I a whiner or what?! Well, at least I’m not a [...]
Gardens & Glass — Cowles Conservatory
Posted in Architecture, Art, Family, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Money, Photography, Place, Quotes, Relationships, Seasons, Structure, Topic Writing, Vision, Word Of The Day, tagged artists, conservatories, Cowles Conservatory, dancers, definition of philanthropy, Frank Gehry, gardens, history of Minneapolis, John Cowles, love of mankind, making a difference, Minneapolis landmarks, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minnesota history, pay it forward, philanthropy, public art, Sage Fuller Cowles, Star Tribune, support of the arts, the value of the Arts, Walker Art Center, windows on March 14, 2009 | 25 Comments »
Sage & John Cowles Convervatory, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2008, all photos © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. In keeping with last week’s Writing Topic, hundreds of windows turn Winter inside out at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden adjacent to the Walker Art Center. Established in 1927, the Walker began as the Upper Midwest’s first [...]
There’s A Rainbow Out The Window
Posted in Dreams, Everyday Art, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Things That Fly, Topic Writing, Vision, Wake Up, Weather, tagged double rainbows, Look To The Sky, New Mexico, New Mexico sky, rainbow, rainbow images, rainbow magic, rainbow photos, rainbow pics, rainbow pictures, Rio Grande Valley, sky, sky pics, sky pictures, skywatching on March 12, 2009 | 18 Comments »
We saw a rainbow that started here… Bright, double rainbow that appears to start in the corner of the field, captured at dusk after a March rain, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. …and stretched across the entire sky… Faint, rainbow’s mid-section, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. …until it landed there…(you might see [...]
PRACTICE: Windows – 15min
Posted in Animals & Critters, Family, Life, Nature, Personal, Place, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged cleaning windows, staring through windows, windows, writing about windows on March 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »
My favorite spot in winter, in front of the sliding glass doors facing east. Doors that are also windows, let in the morning rays that warm my legs and give me a good dose of Vitamin D, which I understand is necessary for bones to absorb Calcium. I look across the pasture, see the big [...]
window geranium haiku
Posted in Everyday Art, Gratitude, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Home, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Weather, tagged geranium, geranium photo, geraniums in winter, images of flowers, names of flowers, promise of Spring, spring, spring in New Mexico, the practice of haiku, windows, writing about windows on March 11, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Window Geranium, looking inside the potting shed window at a geranium stored there until winter’s last frost, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. one morning in march nose pressed against the window i spy spring’s arrival -related to posts WRITING TOPIC – WINDOW, haiku 2 (one-a-day), late winter haiku, and WRITING TOPIC – [...]
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