Lumens*or, Found Poem, with Edits The bone-pot simmers,the lemon blossom fades.The last leaf falls.Regardez, beside the line of roses braving the November air,just beyond the sage-green shutters to wherea would-be novelist blackens white pages in her chill room. See you all when Winter’s come. *Wikipedia: The lumen can be thought of casually as a measure of the total “amount” of visible light. A very short poem or line of poetry — idea popularized by poet Olga Broumas.

Went to the National Business Women’s Week awards in town yesterday and was a presenter for one of the awards. This is the same org that gave me the LENA (Woman of the Year) award a few years ago. Lovely, smart women, all of them. Photos by Carrie Beavers, and here’s the caption: The Isle City Business and Professional Women’s annual awards ceremony honoring local women of achievement took place Sunday, in honor of National Business Women’s Week. Pictured are presenters and award winners (holding awards): Kathy Shaughnessy, Bank of Alameda; Kathy Moehring, LENA Award; Lena Tam, vice mayor of Alameda; Kate Quick, community service award; Dr. Cecelia Cervantes, education…

…that he loves me and I look gorgeous and he is so happy he found me 46 months ago today, in an e-mail he just sent me with this photo. 😉 Happy two months of wedded bliss, my dearest.

Here’s a piece that ran before online, at Tattoo Highway, that I resurrected (this was from Y2K) to use in this year’s Park Street Car Show program. Why am I fiddling with my blog at this hour? Because I drank coffee to stay awake for my women’s group from 6:30 to 10:30, ha fricking har de har. So it’s 11:40 pm and sure wish I could sleep. Anyway. Enjoy this, or don’t. Taming the Beast, or How I Learned to Drive At the time I began to learn how to drive, I must admit, I knew nothing about cars. All I knew was what I had learned in the portable…

Check it out, check it out, mah people. Watch for this in upcoming Sun ads. Photos by Ana Rodrigues But wait — there’s more… And just a few more… It’s for an ad for October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Alameda Sun is giving 15% of its Pink ad revenues to the Susan G. Komen fund, so if you’re in the market, buy an ad, my leetle friends. You like the bosom? Keep it healthy and safe! Take good care of it and both you and your lifemate (and your babies) will be happy. You no like the bosom? Shame on you. Be nice to it anyway. Happy Pink.