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SassyPants

God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.

About Me

Here’s what I know about me: I’m smart, funny, kind. I’m generous to a fault. I can make you laugh crazy hard. I can talk about politics, sex, birth, death, kids, food, pets, love, the universe, healing, words and working with equal vigor and rarely do I have nothing to say. I can hold my tongue when you need to be heard. I can hold you all night and I can love you better than anyone ever has. I’m not quite right when I have my period, or when I’ve been up for more than 24 hours. I’m a picky eater, but I’m learning to try new things. I rock in the sack. I will always feel you on my heart if you let me into yours. *** I’m a mother, a writer, an advocate. My tribe is good to me and I’m good back to them. We take turns needing and being needed and no one slips through the cracks. I have a good life and am proud to be able to say so. I’m a good person, and I’m proud to be able to say that too. *** I love words words words – in fact, it’s all about the words for me. I don’t get hung up semantics but a well-turned phrase will get you entrance into my life faster than anything. I love your eyes, I love to laugh with you. I love to look around a room and love everyone in it, everyone in the whole world. I watch, I learn, I take it in and make it part of me, growing out in every direction.

My Interests

My kids. My work. My family. Reading reading reading. Writing when the muse takes hold, usually at 2 in the morning after a night of bad sleep. I love music, but I don't play anything and my singing makes the feral neighborhood cats howl. It's the lyrics I like most, of course. The really wordy ones... Anyway. I like people. Learning their stories, hearing their secrets if they want to share. Finding the perfect fall leaf or driving by the same incredible snowman again and again thrill me.

I'd like to meet:

Free spirits; free thinkers; freedom fighters; freedom writers; those who set themselves free; those who set others free; people who long to be free at last, free at last.

Music:

So much music, so little time. OK - I'm a lyrics girl, it's all about the words for me. In that spirit, I offer up: Indigo Girls, Girlyman, They Might Be Giants, Bare Naked Ladies, Ani DiFranco, , Hoodoo Gurus, Kate Bush, Lyle Lovett, REM, Pearl Jam, U2 (of course, my age is showing, isn't it?), Norah Jones, Repacements, Sarah MacLachlan, etc etc. Also and of course any blues that might laying around and really good blue grass.

Television:

Don't watch much TV. nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

Books:

Books books books! My current favorite: Lamb (The Gospel According to Bif, Christ's Childhood Pal) - It's laugh out loud funny. It's share with a friend funny. It's read out loud to a friend in the middle of a bookstore until you're asked to stop funny. Oops - that might just be me on that one. Other books ... Well, it's easier to do authors. Alice Walker, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Mark Twain, Barbara Kingsolver, kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams. Oh damn. Too many. I can't tell you all of them, I would just need to kneel in front of my book case and type from there. But one of my perennial favorites is Fall On Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald. Amazing piece of work.

Heroes:

My kids. My older sister, she's amazing. Anyone who can tell their truth even when it's hard to do.

My Blog

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I knew this guy once. You might remember him. He was scraggly looking - his dark beard grew up to his cheekbones but never really filled in. And he wore those glasses - they were huge. Like windshield...
Posted by SassyPants on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:27:00 PST

Shh...

The insomnia gave birth to a migraine that makes my vision go blurry, then double, then my eyes close themselves and I gratefully receive a cool cloth and lay as still as possible. It recedes, I drink...
Posted by SassyPants on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:40:00 PST

Dancing queens

The Tuckers and Tomaszeks have decided to learn the Cotton Eyed Joe before July 4th. We started today, dancing and laughing our tails off in the living room. To be clear, we are not good dancers. We m...
Posted by SassyPants on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:38:00 PST

I invent their lives.

He loves her, has loved her since he saw her. Before he knew she was brilliant and funny, and chipped up by the life she lived before she walked into the bar to drink scotch, neat, while smoking cigar...
Posted by SassyPants on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:15:00 PST

Seeing more than red.

I could have hit her. I was so angry - maybe even in a rage. She had called my daughter a "fucking little bitch" walking down the street, had threatened to follow her home and have our dog euthanized ...
Posted by SassyPants on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:04:00 PST

Gratitude in strange forms

Things here stay the same, even through the changes. She makes a couple of improvements every day, but has at least as many setbacks. There is zero sum gain, it seems. Or maybe it just feels that way ...
Posted by SassyPants on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:59:00 PST

Therapy babies

Several days ago, hospital volunteers brought three therapy dogs through the ICU waiting room to visit the families. People sat with dogs in their laps or right next to them and stroked the dogs, soot...
Posted by SassyPants on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:37:00 PST

Contents:

Cel phoneTwo register receipts -     *Two sudoku books and four mechanical pencil     *Two cups of coffeeDriver's licenseSchool IDDebit cardSoft pack containing two Motr...
Posted by SassyPants on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:21:00 PST

Tent city

It is Wednesday. Our father puts his long arms around us in a moment of relief because his wife, our mother, has opened her eyes to look around briefly. He starts out with his usual strong voice, but ...
Posted by SassyPants on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:13:00 PST

Spring fever

It's the sunshine and the warmth and the tiny new green thingspushing up through the dirtthat make me want to kiss a woman, hard on the mouth, and laugh with her and tells stories.I want cold tea and ...
Posted by SassyPants on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:34:00 PST