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recent dream themes, for Ashley’s eyes only (And for whoever else can stand to read them or who likes to interpret dreams.) 1. Again and always with the dreams that I’m tricked into living with and/or...
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domestix This weekend we made (I made) picadillo, rosemary chicken, and a loaf of white bread. And sloppy joes, which I’m not counting because the recipe wasn’t good and they came out too sweet. This...
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My work is under stress. My company is going to be sold, no one knows to whom or when, and we already know what our severence packages will be, if applicable, but I have no idea whether it’ll be...
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Merry Christmas to my cats, who don’t know anything. Yesterday we gave the cats a new, expensive scratching post. They weren’t as grateful as you might imagine. But that’s how cats are – it takes a...
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getting married Part of the reason I’m marrying my boyfriend Dat is that we share many of the same values and beliefs. Like “Art is a priority” and “You should never do something just because everyone...
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You can tell I’m a Capricorn because… I have rigid ideas about what’s right and proper and just and polite. Like I said earlier, the role of daughter-in-law is coming back to me now like riding a bike,...
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Authoring Update Everything is good, which means everything is boring. I mean, too boring for me to describe to y’all here, or to my cousins or my hairdresser when they ask me how everything’s going....
View ArticleBelated Thanksgiving
It makes me feel weird/ungrateful/Catholic-shameful not to post a list of thanks in November. So it has to be done, even if it’s a month late. Here’s a slight portion of all the stuff I’ve been...
View ArticleAnswers to Important Questions Posted by Readers
Not because I don’t know how to unlock my own Word Press blog comments, but because they deserved their own entry! The following questions come from Mr. Nikita and Elvira Mistress of Felinity, two of...
View ArticleLike Hammer Time but with Less Cardio, It’s Galley Time!
Arte Publico Press has issued the galleys for my upcoming poetry book, Falling in Love with Fellow Prisoners (September 2013!). This book’s release is similar emotionally, for me, to that of the first...
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