haiku: 13 May 2012

Why does the cat want
to cuddle in my lap when
it’s freakishly hot?

haiku: 12 May 2012

Telescope
Telescopes are not
very difficult to build—
if you ask for help.

Creative Commons photo by Ryan Wick

another haiku! cinco de mayo pies

Cinco de Mayo
I’ve made five tasty pies for
a hockey party.
I was a pie-baking fool on Friday, spending very nearly the entire day in the kitchen in a tart frenzy. I’ve made two key lime pies with Oreo cookie crusts*, one chocolate silk pie with graham cracker crust, one apple pie (pastry crust), and one berry pie (pastry crust). And by the end of the day I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. ;)
(* The pie dishes I had available were smaller than I’m used to, so I made two smaller key lime pies [...]

haiku: 31 October 2011

Sea near the Arctic Circle
It’s my last haiku?
I started this project a
year ago today…

(Creative Commons photo by wili_hybrid / Ville Miettinen)

haiku: 30 October 2011

The veils between worlds
are thinning; the wheel turns and
it’s Samhain again.

haiku: 29 October 2011

Playing dead at the
Virginia Museum for
Richmond’s Mummy Love!

haiku: 28 October 2011

So much stress and strain
leave me feeling like I have
a clamp on my heart.





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