Rose Polenzani

unexpected

Today my brother’s wife is going to have her labor induced - this makes the third niece or nephew in my family, and they’ve all been scheduled. The second child, the official niece, was scheduled but refused to stick to it. In other words, the whole catered affair had to be pulled off several days [...]

F874, or WD40 No. 2

Last night the Somerville Free Movie was ‘Field of Dreams.’ I wouldn’t have missed it for a free soy mocha. What a movie! Did I ever tell you that my parents and I took a trip out to Iowa to visit the farm it was filmed on? The baseball diamond is still there - the [...]

spaghetti arms

so a part of the whole ‘letting go of your car’ experience has been a renewed commitment to a life of biking.

My bike has been in disrepair for quite some time, and it’s furthermore been chained up to a fence and the lock on that chain has rusted shut. I went and bought some WD40 [...]

bedding

Yesterday it was my turn to clean the apartment, and I threw myself into it with such vigor. We have a porch that is always hoping to be made into something really special, and yesterday I equalled myself to the task (as well as someone who is determined to not spend any money on it [...]

rear window

it’s terrible, but there are many days when I forget I am supposed to be checking in here… sometimes this feels like the only place I can connect to (this little journal) and sometimes it feels like a million miles away - a glimmer on the surface of the lake (and I’m trolling the bottom). [...]

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