The public/house space facilitates Ma Braden’s close monitoring of Kitten thereafter.As a young writer in secondary school, Kitten satirises the violence within the hegemonic home by narrating the story of the rape of her biological mother, Eily Bergin (Eva Birthistle), by Kitten’s father, ...
or intentional community, or whatever you call it when neighbors are all cooking together in a big group kitchen but minus the bearded dude in orange robes who sleeps with all the women and the person in sunglasses standing off to the side holding a briefcase filled with everyone’s trust-fu...
also a Rimpa Master, but who brought the school into and modernized it for and with the 20th Century. Sekka painted irises, too, in the 20th Century. Here’s one of his “Irises,” which is a photo of a Sekka post card I bought...
I’d sip a red Icee until my lips, teeth, and tongue were tinted its unnaturally red cherry color, waiting for the cart with the blue light to illuminate the kids’ section and put everything in our price range. When I was in elementary school, my grandmother made most of my clothes,...
down they came. Undeterred, they tried again and again. Dad often joined in to help, or he was busy holding together bits of Airfix models while the boys glued and painted Spitfires and Lancaster bombers. Meanwhile, I sat on the sofa with pens and paper making Spirograph patterns, or con...
Wild irises bloomed at the lawn’s edge. A large flowerpot filled with petunias sat on the cement steps leading to the front door. Fewer trees stood in the backyard, and a plastic infant swing swayed in the breeze on an elm bordering the road. Because Miguel drove slowly, the boys ...
I’ve a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it’s part vanity, it’s part privacy and part sensitivity.Brittany HowardMusician Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes was born with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer that caused partial blindness in her left eye. Her ...
with either blonde or brunette hair (twice as many blondes were made as the brunettes) that was in a ponytail with curly bangs. Barbie had bright red lips and nails, heavy eyeliner, arched eyebrows, white irises in her eyes (not blue), black and white striped one piece bathing suit, ...
substitute a boxed mix and frosting to make things easier. These owls become lifelike in the decorating process, with opened sandwich cookies creating the large eyes and brown candy-coated milk chocolate pieces as irises. Drop a vertical candy piece in the middle for a beak, and a dessert th...
The 5th Month: Tall grasses, Blue Irises, and Orange California Poppies I was in heaven as a student when I found a college that let me read all night without thinking a light in my room meant I had an unacknowledged (by the housemother) male guest. I remember reading The Red and ...