How Many Days In The Month Of March — 30 Or 31?

This happens to me almost every month — I have to stop and think about how many days there are. Some months I know by heart. January has 31, February 28, October has 31, December 31. But those months in between — March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November — I honestly don’t know. [...]

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Strange Fruit — Meet The Cherimoya

Meet The Cherimoya, Golden Valley, Minnesota, March 2010, all photos © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. For me, grocery shopping will forever be a chore. Instead of rolling down the aisles with a wire cart, you might find me snooping around the deli section or hiding over by the Redbox machine. Last week was [...]

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PRACTICE: My Favorite Coffee Shop – 15min

My favorite coffee shop has light and green, is serene. The food is one of the biggest draws, a tortilla breakfast sandwich for $2.99, and it has bacon inside and a poached egg, cheese, lettuce, salsa. The best dish is a red chile tamale with a poached egg on top. I’m not a poached egg [...]

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PRACTICE — My Favorite Coffee Shop — 15min

My favorite coffee shop is the Blue Moon on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Large windows facing an urban street; back-lit hideaways with less light, more cozy. Then there is my favorite table. I have two of them. The one across from the half moon string of lights over the serving bar. And the one right [...]

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WRITING TOPIC — MY FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP

Caffe Tazza, sign of this famous little coffee shop in Taos, NM, March 21, 2010, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.         You know the place. A quiet buzz about it, like the buzz you get when you drink what it sells. Café latte. Cappuccino. Chai. Espresso. You go there because [...]

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then and now

then… Jumping Jack Wagon (in June), wagon at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, June 2008, photo © 2008-2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. and now… Jumping Jack Wagon in March, wagon at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, March 21, 2010, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. -Related to posts Homing Instinct [...]

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Discovering The Big Read

By Teri Blair The Big Read, all photos © 2010 by Teri Blair, all rights reserved. Have you heard of The Big Read? I found out about it completely by accident. I was perusing the CDs at my library, and saw one entitled The Big Read: An Introduction to My Antonia by Willa Cather. I [...]

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Greenies Unite!

Leprechaun, Behind the deli counter in an Albuquerque Whole Foods, March 17, 2010, photo © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. There once was a smiling leprechaun with a golden beard and skin the color of fake lawn. She worked at Whole Foods in a place called “The Deli” and when laughed, she jiggled her [...]

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Hotel Royale

By Charles Ederer Should have been in the letter I don’t remember Where I wrote in cursive script that I was lost In the trailing wind An oblique horizon levitating with the sun Setting on me I told you about my life then asking Whether things lost are never found again in daylight Only in [...]

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Roswell, NM — Aliens Welcome Here

Alien Zone, a Main Street soda shop in Roswell, NM, November 2008, photo © 2008-2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. It’s been over a year since my family took a trip to southern New Mexico, stopping off in that out-of-this-world place known as Roswell. We explored the International UFO Museum & Research Center, which when [...]

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Seeds: The Spirit Of Women Writers, March 11, Albuquerque

In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM, in partnership with local arts organizations, artists, writers, and businesses has organized a month-long celebration: Women & Creativity 2010. All over the city, you can attend workshops, exhibits, panels, and many other fun activities. Case in point: creativity + the artist [...]

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Back To Holcomb, One Last Time

By Teri Blair Clutter Memorial Monument, photo © 2010 by Teri Blair. All rights reserved. The town of Holcomb has been on my front burner for years. It began when I saw Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, built momentum when I read In Cold Blood, and culminated with a road trip to Kansas to see [...]

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blue ice haiku

Melting, Awash, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, March 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. frozen in your tracks — blue ice on black macadam melting into Spring -posted on red Ravine, Saturday, March 6th, 2010 -related to post: haiku 2 (one-a-day)

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First Thursdays At Casket Arts

First Thursdays At Casket Arts, poster by Linnea Marie Doyle, © 2009-2010, used by permission of the artist. Once a month the artists in the Casket Arts Building in Northeast Minneapolis open their doors to the public. The March date is coming up fast. The Casket Arts Building, which includes the Carriage House, has a [...]

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BlackBerry 365: Things Loved, Things Learned

He Who Keeps Me Company – 54/365, BlackBerry Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2010, photo © 2010 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. It’s March 1st, 2010. Sixty days and nights have passed since I began the BlackBerry 365 Project. Day 54 landed on this shot of Mr. Stripeypants keeping me company on a less than perfect [...]

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