Rarasaur

LATEST ARTICLES ( 912 )

• Night Ramblings

  It's nearly 2 in the morning and I shuffle into the kitchen to make myself a sandwich. Well, let's call it a sandwich. That sounds more elegant than a fistful o... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Honoring the Glitch

  Sometimes the twinkly lights draped across the building out my window thrum like a heart in fear. It only lasts a few seconds. Then they are solid again for... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Thinking It out

  I never stop being amazed that people read my writing. I honestly can't wrap my mind around it. Just think- if you read every post I posted in 2019- the second... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• the Rest of Roses

  It's the itching. It usually starts like a flutter. I think I might have imagined it. I brush it away like a stray piece of hair may be dangling off my arm.... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lilliputian Logs

  

  When I can't quite build a thought out into something solid enough for this blog, I will often post it to Instagram with the tag #LilliputianLog. The last... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• F.w.b.

  I didn't tell anyone about the first date I had after Dave died, until after. I was afraid it would be an embarrassing disaster, so I made up an excuse and... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Early Winter

  It's not that I don't want to talk to you. It's an issue of scarcity. I have run into a shortage of words. When the phone rings now, there's nothing but a... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mamasaur’s Table

  

  Listen to the silent ask. Let it pull me to my feet and stretch me into helping hands. Remember this is Mama, holding a stack of plates in one palm Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fragments

  1 In the sink of the prison cell, where we get our drinking water and brush our teeth, we wash our clothes, running the soap bar over the heavy fabric, Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poem: Where I’m from

  

  I put together this "Where I'm From" poem, based on a poem of the same name by George Ella Lyon. There's a bunch of versions of this template, but I made this... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: Shoulder-peeks

  This will be the first year the OC Fair will be cancelled since World War II. I still haven't gone despite having lived here for 15 years. (Why do we use roman... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Stroke: Toilet Loaves

  It's been about a year since I had a series of mini-strokes that played havoc on my brain. I'm doing much better now- so much so that I've thought about... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cycles and Check Ins

  This will hopefully not be my only post of the day, but I've been thinking of posts from the past that have seeming relevance today. Like this one written in... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• List: What’s Made Me Smile

  

  In no particular order, here are 33 things that have made me smile recently Danny Maika performing Dave's and my song in his Facebook Lives, along with so... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flip

  My microwaved Thai food tastes like someone once heard a rumor about red curry, based on a memory within a dream. It's Thai food, certainly, but several times... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• i Make the Bed

  I had been in the loop for two days. A cold concrete place with no bedding, mostly used as a drunk tank. I was wearing a soft purple sweater from REI and blue... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Birdwatched

  A lizard crawls along the hot pavement and drinks the sky in quick flickering laps. Greedy is okay today. No humans are outside, and the sky is big enough to... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Kidsyish Poems

  Ma and I are very different,(That's what lots of strangers think.)Cuz I was born in shades of brown,and she was born in pink. Ma and I are very differentsays... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Journal: Tables & Cages

  Goodness knows I don't know what to say. My phone rings, and I answer it, and the first few minutes will be the conversation no one can stop having, or the... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Poem: Inspiration

  fast like where,come back like blink,here like right now,stay like stink. heat like black tar,soft like sog,late like someday,weight like fog. brag like sky... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION