I went as the night sky for Halloween. Below is me with the moon I made. Now the moon hangs in my office window. I rarely open the blind, so it isn't going to block the view. Mostly I don't open the blind because if I do, too much sunlight streams in and it's hot …
Pictured above is Sweet Sadie. We said goodbye to her yesterday. In September 2010, my son and I found her at the Humane Society. She was two. She was thin and sad, anxious about getting the car with strangers, worried about being in our apartment. But soon she settled in, befriended our other dog, Porter, …
Like many others, I watch the news from Paris with sadness and rage. There will be the dead. The lives cut short because of where they happened to be. There will be the loved ones, the hearts broken, the families devastated. There will be the survivors, the nightmares, the destructive coping mechanisms. Of course, this …
I need a lot of naps. I love naps. Life is better with a nap. I've been writing for Story-a-Day May. I'm posting what I've written on my other blog, The Fairy Tale Asylum. And every time I go to take a nap or even just to go to bed, I think, I should be …
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I wonder what my mother would make of all this social media. I can imagine her marveling at the information and the images at her finger tips. She also worry about the lack of privacy. She'd set all of her privacy settings to the max and choose carefully what to share. Of course, I don't …
I do my best to avoid the Could-Have-Been Monster. Who isn't familiar with it? Who sitting alone late a night staring at a screen of one kind or another hasn't felt it lurking in the shadows reaching for a hunched over shoulder? It is a patient monster, never really giving up, always there waiting for …
Marta Bacon 