Weird Fishes
February 28th, 2024
A friend of mine recently said to me that he didn’t feel like trying anymore (with a particular subject) because, “Why? It’s only going to end anyway.” It hit me as being funny at the time. Maybe the word I felt regarding his feeling is pessimism. But then you wonder, is he wrong? Another friend said to me after years of not seeing him, “Holly, we’re dying.” Just out of nowhere came out and said that. We’re dying. It’s true. We are. Fatalistic, negative, pessimistic or reality? Which is it? It begs the question, is it all worth it? It…
Getting Real-Rain Rain, Go Away
October 11th, 2023
I don’t think a lot of artists, or business owners in general think about things when they start a business. We all sort of just wing it. Take a business that relies on doing outdoor events for income. Many artisans work from home, have a studio space, pay for a studio, etc. That studio usually isn’t big enough to have a showing of their work. I’ve been at this for 19 years. This month it’s been nineteen years. Wow. Where does the time go? It’s been fun, exhilarating, exciting, amazing and at times, beyond difficult just like you would expect. …
Now
March 7th, 2023
When I think of you and am missing you miss kissing you I instead think of how I am smiling because the truth is, you are my favorite present. I feel certain that your chest and neck and shoulders seem to have been made for me and how leaning into you and leaning on you provides an assurance I have never known. In your arms I feel sheltered, for you feel like my home away from home. Your inner warmth is the furnace that ignites the fire that will forever fuel the flame. There is safety and comfort …
Generation X
January 18th, 2023
I am from Generation X, the generation that was born between 1965 and 1981. We didn’t and don’t use pronouns to describe what we are. We rarely write or type that we are a “she,” a “he,” a “her,” a “they,” a “them,” a WHATEVER. To be honest, we don’t care. You are either a he, or a she in our world. You are trans, straight, bisexual or gay. You’re Polyamorous? In other words, you like to sleep around and you tell the people that you sleep with that you are sleeping around. We accept gay folks,…
Time
December 3rd, 2022
You wake up thinking it’s like any other day, maybe slightly different than the day before. You may be doing something totally different than yesterday, but it’s just another day. Then you receive a text that someone that you just texted with the night before has died. One of their last texts was to you. They told you they weren’t feeling well and then that night, they died in their sleep. I’m still trying to process it. My friend Pam died. I met her in Logan Square when I did a show there back in 2007. She worked for a…
Spitfire Designs Jewelry-Living And Learning
October 10th, 2022
I have been in business for eighteen years and during that time I’ve learned a lot about how to run a business. With trial and error, I’ve learned what do do, what not to do and what to do every now and then. At least once a month someone recommends a store for Spitfire to go into. “You really should put your jewelry in the store I told you about in Stone Harbor, it would sell.” Stone Harbor is always a big push, or Rehobeth. Years ago, I thought I had made it when my jewelry went into a store. …
Heavenly Tears
July 26th, 2022
It’s interesting how things can go, or change. Last year I was up here for a week and there wasn’t a lot of time to think of my parents. Today, that’s all I am doing is thinking of them. I had covid right before I came up here. I am tired and it’s affects are still present. I was on my way to NH in the beginning of July and I developed Covid, had to turn around and come home. Was home for five days and then left to come back. I am exhausted and I did a show up…
My Lake Sunapee Summer
July 23rd, 2022
MY LAKE SUNAPEE SUMMER The lake is accessible a mere glance away healing me daily in subtle ways It is a neighbor ever welcoming always bearing gifts, a landmark which remains~ possessing a sort of changing mood and graceful acquiescence to each season and weather of every kind. I too am moody but resilient~ and often changing my mind You may find me warm and welcoming or I can turn to ice If the climate isn’t just right. Labile yet reliant on fixtures I find my way with a map of ponds trees and boulders; things that stay. only…
Live Free Or Die
June 9th, 2022
In one month, I leave for New Hampshire. I won’t be around to do custom orders. I promised myself last summer that I would do this, so I am doing it. I will be up there for most of the summer and hopefully, I will be doing the shows that I applied for, albeit, I applied a little late and if not, I’ll research and be on my game for next summer. Some people are questioning me as to why I am going and some people are saying, “Right on. You go girl.” It all depends on who I…
Long Gone-A Tribute to Chris Cornell
May 18th, 2022
Today, five years ago, Chris Cornell took his life. It still seems unreal. There have been many bands that have blown my socks off over the years, but one band, (or person) that came into my life in 1991 blew it up and forever changed me and that was Chris Cornell. I remember exactly where I was standing when I heard his powerful voice. I was in the DJ booth at WDNR, Widener’s radio station, when I heard Soundgarden’s album, ‘Badmotorfinger’ and in particular, “Rusty Cage.” I had never heard a voice like his before but also, just their whole…