Full Title: "April 1," a poem full post »

Foolish Is a word for lovers. You need to have given your heart You need to be enthralled, entwined With that particular voice, with an unwanted animal, With the smell of hyacinths, with a homeland To step beyond shame and Into the joy Of ... full post »

Full Title: "January 1" A Poem by Ann Hudson full post »

Full Title: Everything Old is New Again full post »

You know how sometimes you can hear an old story and it suddenly says something brand new to you? Casablanca, fedoras and sacrifice in black and white, leaves you cold when you're in your twenties and ten years later, you feel it. You read Cinderella to t... full post »

On the way to preschool, I argue with my daughters over which CD song to listen to. A Jon Brion song starts and Mia wails "Nooo!" "No whining!" I retort, busy with navigating through the snow and worn out after a crazy morning. "I don't want this... full post »

Full Title: Waking Beauty full post »

Full Title: Nora, two, singing a nursery rhyme, a misquoted military anthem and the Polyphonic Spree full post »

“Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down.” Dance around the roses. Fill your pockets with flowers. You live, then you are dust. Here, in a simple chiming chant, is the story of the life cycle, the circle tha... full post »

Full Title: Skate Lesson full post »