Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• Mr. Famous

  

  He pulls up again, this was the third or maybe fourth time in as many months. Different time of day, different street, but I think I am wearing the same... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2017 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Still Alive

  In no particular order, here's a 2016 retrospective: Strangers with whom I Fell In Love: The woman who makes the signboards for Embee Performance along the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• a Helluva Year Next Door, Let’s Go

  

  I've had a wild couple of years. Not the good kind of wild, where tiny monkeys peek joyfully from behind giant leaves. Not the good kind of wild, where a... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Copper Lemons

  

  I wish I wrote the way I read: unforgivingly, relentlessly, visibly. I trace my fingers over letters, mouth the words, gasp and cry. I slam books shut in a way... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Just Like You

  

  Not all nuance fits in a story. I could write a thousand journals and never mention that I mispronounce words more often than not. I learned them in a book,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• & Rings

  

  If we were having coffee, I might pull a twisty tie from my pocket. I save them for my cats, they enjoy them more than the finest cat toys. When we're... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sizzle

  

  I have more ideas than discipline, more dark than light, more love than sense, more song than sight. I have more ideas than discipline. ... and that's... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sweetened

  

  Before he stopped eating sugar altogether, in our early days, Dave ate candy canes. "Stop it," I'd admonish. "Those are just decorations." "They're in a bowl,"... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Because I’ve Had Enough

  

  Because I've had enough food, I am able to go hungry, for small bursts at a time. Because I've had enough kindness, I am able to give it when I am completely ou... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• a Question

  

  A friend asked me for my blogging goals in 2016. Another friend asked me, if I could wave a magic wand and see any type of post from him, any prompt answer,... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• You’ll Try Anyway

  

  No one's ever outrun their grief, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't stretch your hamstrings. You'll try anyway, child, even knowing it's never been... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• and to Think That i Saw It

  

  There's probably a mermaid out there in the water. There might be a daisy on the sun. Yesterday, I curled up under a Christmas tree and saw magic blink by. It... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bones Like Mine

  

  I wear a safety pin for me. It is a cold reminder, metal against skin, worn on the inside of my clothes. It is not to remind me that I am not safe. That would b... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wishes

  

  Wish-making is hereditary, or might be. I didn't write this, but could have. I want to be friends. "You don't want to make a bigger wish?" a grown-up asks. I... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• You, a Poem

  

  "Do you read a lot of poetry?" he says, nodding toward my stack of books, making idle conversation with me as he refills my lemonade and sets out my napkin and... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Dehydration by Grayson Queen

  

  For today, I thought I'd share something the hubs wrote because I still am not up to typing, and he always enjoyed helping me keep my commitments. ♡ ... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• It and i

  

  I can't type today, sometimes my hand goes numb, sometimes my heart goes numb. I'm whispering this into my phone-what a cold and strange thing with which to... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Want a Holiday Card?

  

  ​https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=583289998542069 id=100005832218642 Be sure you're on my list. I haven't decided if it'll be a Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fiction Kinda

  The Ferrari stopped and the tinted window opened to reveal an old man. He peered outside, staring at the old convenience store. It is hard to discern any facia... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Golden Good

  

  He covered two hundred of these with gold paint, for the kids. Yesterday I saw one, in the hands of a teen, still in foster care, still holding on to the memory... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2016 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION