Entering the conversation

Woodhall Press is allowing me to do just that with BEARDED LADY. Every time I read, see, listen to something that touches me, I think they're telling the world something. Now it's my turn.

A year ago

 

The home of your heart

Mine was a converted co-op preschool called McGee's Farm. We lived there for 13 years, brought two puppies and a child down that long pathway that led to the cottage in back. I'm looking for the next. 

Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Walk on the Ocean"

 We spotted the ocean

At the head of the trail
Where are we goin?
So far away

And somebody told me
This is the place
Where every thing's better
And every thing's safe

Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone

Half an hour later
We packed up our things
We said we'd send letters
And all of those little things

They knew we were lying
They smiled just the same
And it seemed they'd already
Forgotten we'd came

Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone

Walk on the ocean
Step on the stones
Flesh becomes water
Wood becomes bone

Back at the homestead
Where the air makes you choke
People don't know you
And trust is a joke

Don't even have pictures
Just memories to hold
Grow sweeter each season
As we slowly grow old

Heather Havrilesky on marriage and memoir

If I didn't think that it served a purpose in the world, I wouldn't feel that comfortable with it. I really think I've made something that has a purpose and is enjoyable to read. ... I think that people in our culture find it very easy to beat themselves up when they fall short of what our culture expects of them. Marriage is -- we're seeing in the reaction to my book -- considered kind of this sacred realm that we're not supposed to talk about. That intimate behaviors of people in a marriage are supposed to be kept hidden from the people around them.

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