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by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby "We Bought a Zoo" is a kid's movie. Please enjoy the awkward nature of being alive i...

from The Invention of Solitude : There is no light to sink his teeth into, no sense of time unfolding.  Rather, a feeling of doors being s...

by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby   Signs abound and puddles of slush, so you leave the house 
like some latter-day Candide e...

My poem "Crown" appears in a great new issue of Open Letters Monthly .  Thank you to the editor, Maureen Thorson!

I'm pleased to announce that my first full-length book, The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis , is now available for pre-o...

Today we went to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.  I saw this Italian Futurist dog. I ate a cup of vegetable bisque, half a brie panini,...

1.  Sometimes a person may say they are doing a blog post for each day in November, but what they are really doing is a blog post for ma...

Well, I skipped another day. Today I went to Cobble Hill to go to BookCourt.  On the way, I saw these solid gold shoes.  After the bo...

Occasional Poem for Wednesday I wake up to someone in mid-conversation with me about the conspiracy theories surrounding The Shining, ho...

Today was cold and sunny, and Elias was in a good mood, except when he got his flu shot.  I'm thinking about how much of our discourse n...

Three from Monday. It was unseasonably warm on Monday, and we went to the playground and went on the swings.  The sky was beautiful, and I...

Today I met with two friends and did writing exercises, which was fun.  I get some good material for poems that way.  And some human contact...

Clay Often I find myself longing to be another sort of artist, so that my thinking would happen while drawing or moving clay about with my...

Oh, oh!  My blog-post-a-day project is getting away from me.  Well, ok.  Here's Friday night:

Oh!  I missed a day.  OK, this falling darkness in the afternoon isn't so cute anymore.  A friend wrote me this email:  "This darkn...

Tuning into Your Day in Almost Mid-November What do you do with a wintry mix and a tiny human who won't keep his socks on is a questi...

I'm looking at this European toy website and talking to Clif like I'm Rain Man.  "I like the Color Tower Stacking Game .  Y...

Is it too soon to start playing holiday music?  This morning, I put on Pandora and realized I have an "indie holiday" station ...

Two things from today: 1.  This morning I was having a dream that I found the perfect shoes.  They were like old-fashioned black leather ...

A walk at dusk. A book I found on the sidewalk a couple weeks ago. Something that was in the book. Shadow puppets. ...