Posted by: Becca on: October 19, 2009
Sometimes, even when I don’t think I’m praying, God likes to jump into my conversations with myself. Kind of like the person standing behind you in line while you’re talking to whomever you’re with (loudly enough for everyone to hear), who just goes ahead and tosses in a passing comment like they were part of [...]
Posted by: Becca on: May 29, 2009
There’s this guy. His name is John. Or maybe he spells it Jon. I don’t really know. I also don’t know his last name. I met him at the coffee shop. We happened to be sitting at the same table one day, because we happened to have the same friend sitting at the same table. [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 7, 2009
New Years Eve, it was a week ago, and I was going to write something sooner, but didn’t. You know.
Anyways on the way home from work, I stopped at Food Lion to pick up some stuff for the night, since a few people were coming over. Well I guess while I was driving, the bag [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 10, 2008
Okay, so I’m going to start with this: My sister gave me incense as one of my birthday gifts. The one I picked to burn tonight reminded me of some time between 6th and 7th grade. For all practical purposes, I could probably just label this time as “before”. It wasn’t before sickness or death, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 28, 2008
So far this summer:
Took Natalie to Movies in the Park in Locust twice and saw the Bee Movie and Shrek 3 and bought and consumed between 3 adults and 1 two year old approximately 4 bags of popcorn, 3 bags of cotton candy, 2 snow cones, 2 bags of M&M’s, sweetarts, a nerds rope, and [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 3, 2008
Excerpts from my “How to get lost”
I watched you cut your teeth on daydreams,
intangibly full to the top,
believer set on fire, set apart
Your altars, your sanctuaries, your fields-
you were never able replace, and in the meantime…
beautiful child, who fed you so much apprehension?
you walked easy, confident
the collective mind rolled from your certainty,
never tainted you this [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 1, 2008
…And I would walk
past the trees, the barn, the fields,
watch the seasons
come and go
know that so much remained
in the face of a world that changed
I need that thing
that roots me, that connects me
and runs deep
echoes peace and perseverance
holds steady…
This is part of Little Altars which I wrote around this time last year, because I write [...]
Posted by: Becca on: June 28, 2008
I can think of 4 driving experiences where I have driven through really bad, people pulled to the side of the road or put on their hazards kind of weather and yesterday was one of them. It was an insane amount of rain, I was on the highway in 5 pm traffic. Recently I also [...]
I got a study guide for the MAT for grad school from the library yesterday and actually got pretty excited thinking about studying for it as it was described in the book as “testing far ranging knowledge in areas as diverse as vocabulary, history, literature, fine arts, mathematics, science, general knowledge, and even anagrams” [...]
Posted by: Becca on: May 12, 2008
May 10, 2008
Mom, Natalie and I walked around downtown Concord today. We parked in the free 3 hour parking deck behind the library and made our way in and out of the little boutiques and antique shops. We stopped in one store and sampled lotions, stopped in another where I took about 15 minutes to [...]
