Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson

Musings on a Rainy Monday at my desk

5 Quotes from Books at Hand (a peek at what I do when I’m not at the store): “The post-anthropocentric ethics of expanded obligations becomes a way of taking responsibility, by the human, for various sorts of thickenings of the universe, across different scales, and of responding to the tangled mesh of everyday connections andContinue reading “Musings on a Rainy Monday at my desk”

Special Duendesday issue on a Friday

{life with a curious and crazy officially 13 yr old} My adorable little pea is now a teenager – when did that happen? She is a glorious young person with certainly a mind of her own. She’s kind, she’s ridiculously fashionable and funny, she’s smart and creative. Of course, she is woefully undisciplined (in theContinue reading “Special Duendesday issue on a Friday”

Monday’s Musing

Swallowtails BY ALLAN PETERSON The Emperor thought of his heart as a water wheelflooding the rice fields of all creationand bloodied the water for a better harvest.His warriors hoped for a life with wings.His swallowtails wrote him the same lines—the secret of life is a resurrected worm—He told them eventually time would run backwardsin their hands,Continue reading “Monday’s Musing”

Tuesday Happenings: Crazy Bzzzy!

All of a sudden, all the things are happening. This Summer Solstice is bringing with it a real start to a season! This Friday, June 23rd, we are lucky lucky lucky to have a lovely poetry reading with poets: Audrey Gidman (her first, thoughtfully bound collection from Slate Roof Press, Northfield, MA is gorgeous), megContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Crazy Bzzzy!”

Duendesday: pre-teen and 8th grade!

{life with a curious and crazy almost 13 yr old} And so the time has come to say goodbye to ‘child’hood and enter ‘teen’hood for this gal. I’m sad but excited, she’s sad but excited, Josh is scared but excited (ha!). She’s so tall and friendly people expect her to be older but she stillContinue reading “Duendesday: pre-teen and 8th grade!”

Spring Tuesday ‘Round Here

Scene One: The Eastern Phoebe family on the back of the garage is growing nicely – a little pile of chicks stacked up waiting for their flycatching parent to bring them bits. Simultaneously the Dragonflies have hatched and they work hard like aerial acrobats saving us from being devoured by mosquitos (ok, I just likeContinue reading “Spring Tuesday ‘Round Here”