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My Dad and I spent the morning driving around visiting cemeteries and talking about long-gone family members. I had many, many questions some of which he couldn’t answer. We stood looking at the headstone of his Grandmother while I asked more questions he didn’t know when a car pulled up and a woman […]

While at Jen’s surprise birthday party in her parents’ backyard, Jen’s Dad called me an “old maid” but it didn’t hurt my feelings because I know I’m not an “old maid.” I’m a spinster. A spinster…living alone…with cats. In a couple of years or months or possibly minutes I will register spinstercat.com […]

I took off my iron smile
Because I found it weighed me down
Tomorrow when the world wakes up
I’ll be in another town
You don’t know what you want
But at this moment it could be me
You move your hand across my knee
Turn me in to some novelty
I guess I’m
One more girl on the stage
Just one more ass that […]

“Lucky I have strong legs like my mother
To run for cover when I need it”
Dig if you will the picture I didn’t get of two elderly gentlemen sitting side by side on one side of a tall table in a sports bar smiling and eyeballing my Mom and me in our softball attire as we […]

As I often say, the best pictures are the ones that are impossible to get. I realize it in the split second that it is happening. And then it’s over and I actually feel a little pain at that moment but I know that it would not have been possible to capture it, […]