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Tag Archives: Mom
Deaths
Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it. The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]
Posted in Greens, Journal Also tagged cancer, candle, Dad, David Carradine, death, Farrah Fawcett, Jerri Nielsen, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, poem, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College 1 Comment
Conflation (poem)
Conflation
I found home far from my birthplace,
but at night my dreams remind me:
I see them, Mom and Dad and their home
at one with the landscape I now call my own
and in daylight reality I know
that my dream is more true than the maps which show
the distance between my home, their home.
Dreams evaporate the miles
and place [...]
We are all, or none
Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove "gender identity" and "gender expression" from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance -- in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won't throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I'm not alone.
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance, Transfolk Also tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Andrew Halcro, gender expression, gender identity, Green-Lieght family, Ivan Moore, Jerry Prevo, lgbtq, Ptery, sexual orientation, transgenderism, transsexuality 6 Comments
Blinks
On Facebook, my friend David has been thinking about blinks. He posted a brief little meditation about it a few days ago, & this morning a wonderful short poem called “Blinking” that I wish I could post here but I haven’t asked him so I won’t. But his poem led me to dig [...]
Posted in Greens, Nonfiction Also tagged 1962, 1994, blinks, cats, Columbia Falls, creative nonfiction, Dad, Dave, David Cheezem, Eight Lives, Facebook, Green family, Gretchen Legler, Lem the cat, Mark, Melz history, memory, Mer, Montana, Rozz, UAA, Whylie Leave a comment
Didn’t notice when I took it….
Me, today
First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At lunchtime I decided to take a brief walk to take pics of the snow for [...]
How it feels
Today’s Start Walking blog:
Tuesday, 11 July 2006: How it feels
One thing I’ve noticed more & more lately is how good it feels now to walk. Even going up hills, as I did this morning on my bus stop walk: I remember how just last year, when my car at the time was out of [...]
Posted in No Way Way, Start Walking Also tagged death, Melz health philosophy, Start Walking 2006 Leave a comment
Sunflowers for my mother
Mom, these are some of the sunflowers Mark’s work sent for Dad, because they were your favorite flower. I was always lousy at remembering Mother’s Day or your birthday early enough to get a card to you. But Mom, today I remember & love you. I’m taking good care of myself. [...]
Start Walking: Baseline week
The person responsible for mailing out pedometers & setting up progress blogs on the intranet site got my blog set up, so I wrote my first entry. A lot of it repeats info I’ve given here already, but oh well. Here’s what it says:
Monday, May 8: Waiting for the pedometer
Okay, my blog’s up [...]
Posted in Start Walking Also tagged acid reflux, biking, dancing, hiking, Melz state of my art (health/fitness), pedometer, Start Walking 2006, vending machines, walking Leave a comment
Bike day #1
I finally did it.
Sometime last fall, we started driving the car less often, & began taking the bus to/from work & other destinations more often. For me, that’s usually meant taking the bus sometimes as many as three or four days of the week, driving only when after-work errands or appointments were necessary.
The two [...]
My story of 2009