When my father lay dying in his hospital bed, I had to walk through a swarm of dragonflies to cross the parking lot. Every since, I have considered the dragonfly to be my father’s totem. I have a decorative dragonfly on my front porch, one in my side yard, and one, in the form of […]
And the day came, said Anais Nin, when the pain of remaining tight in the bud was greater than that of blossoming.
When I was a little girl, I spent a lot of time in my grandmother’s sewing room. I remember Betsy McCall paper dolls and musty books of wall paper samples. I remember learning to hand stitch a nine patch quilt square. But what I remember most is the sound of her parlor clock. Standing two […]
7:30 p.m., Saturday, September 9th, 2023 at Claire School of Dance studios, 1245 Heights Blvd. The program includes: Casting Shadows, Bearing Light. Choreographed by Ashley Horn and performed by Lindsay Cortner. Pillow Chair, a tribute to Yvonne Rainer. Choreographed and performed by Roxanne Claire. Inclose. Choreographed by Ashley Horned, performed by Ashley Horn and Lucy […]
January 15, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. Rebecca Blackshear and Reagan Hand perform The Earth and Dark, choreographed by Roxanne Claire, as part of Mind the Gap at MATCH, 3400 Main Street.
Along my morning walk is a fence with a wisteria entwined in its woven wire. Branching from a corner, it runs predominantly along the north-facing side. During the winter, its heavy vines are dormant, bare. In summer, it is lush with lance-shaped leaflets. For a brief time in early spring, however, it is dense with […]
This morning I turned earth in my front garden bed and scattered seed from last year’s flower head harvest. Then I went for my matinal walk. The fresh air announced the arrival of spring. Along the way, I found a host of hostas bedecked with the glittering jewels left by the overnight shower. I bent […]
In my neighborhood, there are many live oaks. Their winding and twisting limbs spread in a majestic canopy, green leafed capillaries against the sky. I pause in my morning walk to place a hand on deeply furrowed bark. Under my palm, a force rises from the earth and gently filters into my heart. I walk […]
A grey and cold day, close to but not at freezing. I struggle in days without sun. I struggle still with the weight of a heart heavy with grief. Everywhere I look, I see only gray. Except. I pull up to an intersection. To my right, a former used car lot. A metal pipe runs […]
In an episode of Big Bang entitled “Itchy Brain Simulation,” Leonard thinks Sheldon is overreacting over an unreturned DVD. Sheldon feels Leonard doesn’t understand that, for him, unresolved issues are “like an itch in my brain that I can’t scratch.” So Sheldon asks Leonard to wear an itchy sweater until the overdue DVD is taken […]