CarenSep 10, 20162 minsplashy names9/10/16 My newest baby niece has a strange and spangly name: Ariel Salina. Splashy names are kind of her parents’ M.O. The two siblings...
CarenNov 5, 20142 minguilt headache11/4/14 Because when you get married you realize that some of the things you stood by as "your thing"--like wearing clothes beyond the...
CarenNov 12, 20122 minthree years11/11/12 Three years is so little, just a teensy dusting of time. Photos of you three years ago are barely discernable from photos from...
CarenOct 29, 20123 minpromises promises10/29/12 Sometimes you do what God tells you to do and things get worse. The voice is easily misheard. Only to people in the Bible does...
CarenMay 3, 20123 minletter to obama5/3/12 A gallery visitor met me at the door this morning as I was locking up to drop stuff off in the office. He said, "I have to talk...
CarenDec 23, 20091 minwhen she isn't eating her own hand,12/22/09 Stella speaks to me. Directly. She chirps and her eyebrows go up and down and they furrow in a strangely familiar way The...
CarenOct 3, 20093 minconversational dexterity10/3/09 "Do you ever think that the American family is suffering a crisis. When you look around you, do you see the family falling apart....
CarenSep 24, 20092 minstella evangeline eng9/24/09 She's here. Officially an individual. The previous nine months of preparation, fuss, and hype still haven't lived up to the...
CarenSep 13, 20092 minforgive me9/13/09 For the past month and a half, I've resided in fellowship with a tiny spider that lives on my windowsill. While I was in...
CarenAug 26, 20091 minyesterday's dinner8/26/09 "That one," my mom said, and pointed at a fish swimming a little away from the rest, its mouth opening and closing silently, its...
CarenAug 17, 20092 mindeliver us from everything8/17/09 trying to warn lawrie of the dangers of the internet, but i can't quite figure out how to tell it. "there are... bad things......
CarenJul 14, 20091 mincatcalled7/14/09 about a week ago, i passed by an old bald man leaning on a walker. wanting to appear friendly and local, i smiled at him. he...
CarenJun 29, 20092 mintattoos6/29/09 i love tattoos. it's kind of a stupid fascination. tattoos can be inexcusably expensive and trendy and in bad taste, but i like...
CarenJun 25, 20091 minsister6/25/09 when she is driving, i look at her wrists because they are almost exactly like mine, except paler. my wrists attach her hands to...
CarenMay 1, 20091 minexplains nothing5/1/09 at times it occurs to me, terrifyingly, how small my life is. if i were to add up its parts, with the things i do and why i do...
CarenApr 28, 20091 minpollen on my laptop4/28/09 pollen on my laptop. leaves on my bedspread. it seems a sin to have the windows closed on such a breeze. i hang my laundry...
CarenMar 13, 20092 minbaby daddy3/13/09 she was one of the people i met in the park that night when we brought our squishy tuna sandwiches and the coolers of iced tea to...
CarenFeb 9, 20091 minmy feet miss africa2/8/09 On the third and last leg of our flight back to the US, I tried to ignore the fact that there was something stuck between my toes....