Author: cednie

I’ve been considering the subject of Failure. I realized, long after I wrote about renaming this weblog “F,” that F was a grade that stood for Failure. F is not really part of my...

Squirrels on the run, coon treed, dogs in motion, cold seeping everywhere, everywhere, humpty-dumpty moon waves her white flag as she slides suddenly back behind the hill. January rhythms, winter alive. I’d like to...

She learned to read when she was four, before kindergarten. Her mother taught her. She remembers sitting down with a beginner’s reader, a Dick and Jane book. She was surprising herself by reading, and...

I don’t have an art room. I just have an interface. It’s electronic, mostly, when it’s not paper. This one is a cool gray, blue gray, with a gradient of royal blue at the...

“It’s crucial that you find ways to creatively and constructively channel your sacred rage at what’s wrong in your world.” from freewillastrology

The thing about loudgirl is she’s supposed to open her mouth. She’s not supposed to care what you hear, what you think you hear, what you used to hear, what you wish to hear...

It’s not a good idea, is it? Tearing into the globe of grapefruit, breaking the membranes, sending sparkles of juice shooting off over the keys. I rip into the tart pink flesh with my...