My Inconvenient Body

Goodbye Post

inconvenientbody — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:05:58 +0000

OK, so I know I’m a little late, but I’m going to say my official goodbye here at My Inconvenient Body. Two little ones turned out to be a little more than I bargained for (mom artist’s beware!), but I’ve also moved to a new state and made a lot of Christmas gifts since my [...]

Crushed

inconvenientbody — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:56:41 +0000

I can’t write with you on my chest You crush the words inside me Into essence & nonsense & body And sound. Which is fitting Because that’s all word is to you Sound and the motion behind it. I am beneath you Unable to write about anything else.

Faces

inconvenientbody — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:13:08 +0000

As I negotiate this slight but present “writer’s block,” I leave you with Rainer Maria Rilke. What he is (not was, is) very much represents why I want to write. [Faces] (From The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) Rainer Maria Rilke Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am [...]

Settling for Settle

inconvenientbody — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:58:01 +0000

1. “I’m so much older than I thought I’d be,” cries unhappy wife and mother, Emily Weaver in Crazy, Stupid Love, and I have to admit that I laughed out loud at the line’s illogical logic. I’m so much older than I thought I’d be. Just five years ago, my youth seemed to spread before [...]

Our Children, Our Selves

inconvenientbody — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:31:02 +0000

1. You like to think they get the best of you, and I’m not taking eyes or jaw-line. I’m both interested and disturbed by how much of myself is blood, DNA, my body. (This veers dangerously close to the theme of my blog, which could mean a ten thousand word tangent, but for the sake [...]

I can’t say it better

inconvenientbody — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:25:52 +0000

These are some of the most important words on love (as in the human relationship) that I’ve read in some time: An honorable human relationship–that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”– is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the [...]

iObject (It’s a question)

inconvenientbody — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:44 +0000

Stay with me. This is a question. I’m researching a project I have in mind. . . Part 1. While visiting my childhood home, I came across an old, empty journal. The journal was a gift, and I’d thought it so wonderful, I didn’t dare write in its pages. The book is fat (nearly three [...]

Expect the Worst

inconvenientbody — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:27:02 +0000

1. Great Expectations My two and a half year old wakes up crying in the night. His nightmares recur with similar themes. He drops an ice cream cone in sand, or he wants his banana whole but his father cuts it up. Maybe I take away his toy. He works through the same situation again [...]

Live Free or What?

inconvenientbody — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:14:21 +0000

1. You cannot be in the United States for long without running into the word “freedom.” In fact, the concept of “freedom” extends far beyond the literal and specific (i.e. democracy) into a glorious and mythical abstraction. The sentence: We are free. is wildly incomplete. Sure, compared to some (if not many) countries, our citizens [...]

In the Absense of Should

inconvenientbody — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:31:19 +0000

1. Some years ago, when I had time for such things, I wrote on a slip of paper (and later taped it to my mirror): There is no such thing as should. Sure, if you want to talk context, there is a should. For example, if I want to feel healthier, the ideal thing for [...]