January - February 2010 | Through the Looking Glass
All through our marriage my husband has encouraged myself and the children in all our creative endeavours; often buying me gifts of art materials and sending me away to art courses and seminars while he took care of the children.
Poetic Words: and eyes are on me
Poetic Words: Blue, green, cool, hibiscus-scented breezes,
I was twenty-one and thought some boudoir photos would be a great anniversary gift for my husband of two years. I was working at a television station at the time, and one of the news photographers I worked with did them for me. I was so excited by the glossy photos in the white envelope passed to me…
poetic words…can’t possibly be me
Ginger is the opposite of her outspoken, uber confident mother, Coco in Stephanie Lehmann’s third novel, The Art of Undressing.
Poetic Words I imagine her in a red sari, with a ring in the nose
Poetic Words You drink Ice Tea now, without ice.
How on earth does the girl who prides herself on holding it together admit that she’s a little vulnerable?
Poetic Words: But it’s not red, it’s clear instead.
Things aren’t always as they seem
Poetic Words the outward curve of a breast
a fictional foray…And that was her mistake ‘ the basic mistake too many women make ‘ thinking that the children were reason enough to keep the relationship together.
poetic words…but my heart shivers
poetic words except to the spirit encased
poetic words To look within deep-set brown eyes
poetic words…And it
poetic words to be a woman
The Independent Film “The Secret Spot” ranks high on the list for our Editor in Chief….
words of prose: It seemed like it was only yesterday that you discovered that the great truths of the world, the secrets of living, were inscribed in love songs…
You hear the clich’ that ‘life is too short’. And often times, the people quoting this age old clich’ are in the next breath, making excuses for not doing something because the time is not right or a better opportunity might come along. I, for one, am tired of the excuses.
