white noise

For those young people of the White Rose Resistance, who lived and died courageously. You sent your messages barbed — prismatic words burrowing deep into the hardened, winter soul. These forbidden ideals scattered, delivered in secrecy, each of you toiled long, cold hours for justice. In January, you knew that you, too, were just as […]

For my friends, Yana and Laurel, who really need to be more geek. ;) We drank root beer all night, sprawled like shipwrecked sailors hoarding a last cask of rum. Unladylike, draped over couches, recliners, and a dusty, overstuffed chair, we laughed ourselves purple recalling the past – Duran Duran, the trampling waves of Punk […]

I had a dream once. I met a prince and eventually married him. Then I kissed him. Magic spell broken, He turned into a toad.

So, everyone knows the more time we spend in the sun, the lighter our hair becomes, right? For me, this usually means more pronounced red highlights. I think I liked this color — once — when I was 17. Assertion on the box of L’Oréal #6A “Light Ash Brown”: This shade has a cooler tone […]

Coolness! I was poking around online looking for info on Eva’s California Poets in the Schools and a Google search on her name brought up an online version of Metamorphoses. I lost my printed copy long, long ago, but it’s neat to see our work still hanging around out there on the web :) : […]