One of my goals for this year is to become proficient in using/riding the train and bus system where I live.  I think the bulk of my trepidation regarding this venture comes from a rather miserable mishap I had years ago in college. One of my dear friends and I worked for an afterschool daycare [...]

I cannot quite convey how *thrilled* I am to announce the birth of a new blog: In the Words of Womyn.  You can read all about the vision of this new blog and what inspired me to start it here.  This blog serves as a kind of virtual open mic for womyn to give sound [...]

Did you ever have a penpal?  I remember having several at various points throughout my elementary school career.  We were paired up with kids from around the world and we exchanged letters. Boy was it exciting to get those tell-tale red and blue boardered international mail envelopes with such exotic stamps.  There was such thrill [...]

…in 2010. 2010 always seems like one of those fake movie years, like some random future date at which we will never arrive.  Welp, here we are. I could go on with some story about why I abandoned my dear Front Porch visitors, but I’ll save you the tales and I’ll hope that you forgive [...]

I always liked the idea of a window right over the kitchen sink.  There is something whimsical about being able to feel the breeze on a balmy spring day as you’re filling a pitcher of quenching water; something calming about watching the trees bend and sway in the wind as you clip stems to fill [...]

I was sick outta work on my hands I had time in between all my naps I came up with this rhyme it started with a tickle then my throat got sore so I bought all the Airborne I could find in the store I was sneezin’ and wheezin’ all laid up in my bed [...]

I cook many things.  I develop new recipes.  I pour over cookbooks.  I relish new flavors.  I revel in culinary victories. My kitchen is my studio, my laboratory, my sanctuary. While some women delight in buying a cute new handbag that just went on sale or those sassy shoes that just went on clearance, I [...]

my life is a paradox– a passionate tango of already and not yet I have lived so many lives this young body holds captive an old yet playful soul I have come so far from where I began and yet still have so far to go I have swept up the shattered remnants of my [...]

there is something heavier than lead weighing down my heart lead is the color of this day the color of once bright eyes that sparkled and danced with life lead is the color of the shadow I see in the weary reflection staring back at me the color of being older than my years there [...]

I came up with this title earlier today and the alliteration was just so delicious I had to figure out a post to go with it! I was thinking today about how some of the absolute most wonderful things and people in my life have come out of entirely random situations.  Very often at the [...]