Tag Archives: Scotland

‘Wax and wane’

Posted on October 30, 2018 by pinklightsabre

By the time we got to the end of October I was done with it. The Halloween decals on the windows, the witches and skulls…it seemed to go on forever, like it should have been over by now. The skeleton … Continue reading →

Posted in death, writing | Tagged aging, Cocteau Twins, death, Halloween, journal writing, Memoir, mid-life crisis, prose, Scotland, sentiment, short form, stream-of-consciousness, William Pearse writer | 14 Comments

Companion Piece

Posted on October 28, 2018 by pinklightsabre

October 28, 2018 (Sunday) The moody look of the freeway heading east toward the foothills with the rain coming on and the color draining out, now down to yellow. Fog and clouds over the dark mountain contours. Lily and her … Continue reading →

Posted in prose, writing | Tagged alliteration, Arbroath, autumn poetry, journal writing, Memoir, pacific northwest, poetry, Scotland, short form, William Pearse writer | 16 Comments

The same deep water as you

Posted on October 27, 2018 by pinklightsabre

We went back to the old elementary school, Charlotte’s last year, for the annual Halloween bash. Dawn and I stood in the playground feeling tired and out of sorts, trying to make out the identities of kids running by as … Continue reading →

Posted in identity, Memoir, writing | Tagged aging, Halloween, identity, LGBT, marriage equality, mid-life crisis, nostalgia, parenting, Scotland, sentiment, The Cure, William Pearse writer | 17 Comments

The Fall of 2015 | The Chauffeur’s Flat

Posted on November 12, 2017 by pinklightsabre

We fell asleep with the laptop on watching Bob Ross the painter dragging colors down to form a reflection, shapes along the shorelines in reverse. And I went back to poking a coal of memory, a no-name place in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged Bob Ross, existentialism, mid-life crisis, parenting, Schengen, Scotland, Scotland travel, sense imagery, stream of conscious, stream-of-consciousness, travel, William Pearse writer | 14 Comments

The Fall of 2015 | 90-day family road trip, UK

Posted on October 22, 2017 by pinklightsabre

We were living in Germany but didn’t have a visa and had to leave for three months, had to leave the Schengen and most of Western Europe: so we decided on the UK because they spoke English there and we … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, travel | Tagged aging, Blonde on Blonde, Highlands Scotland, humor, Memoir, mid-life crisis, Schengen, Scotland, the nature of memory, travel, traveling with kids, UK travel, William Pearse writer, writing | 19 Comments

The Firth of Forth

Posted on October 17, 2017 by pinklightsabre

In the morning it was darker than we remembered it—Lily called out to Alexa three times to change the alarm, and I went downstairs to start the coffee, to check my phone. My vision was bad from the bug that … Continue reading →

Posted in musings, parenting, travel | Tagged Battle of Evermore, existentialism, Firth of Forth, humor, Memoir, mid-life crisis, pacific northwest, parenting, Scotland, Tolkien, travel, William Pearse writer | 18 Comments

Wednesday’s twilight anthem

Posted on September 21, 2017 by pinklightsabre

The Jupiter’s Beard is fanned-out pornographic in our front yard, exposed to the root. And the grass is so dead, it’s what Gregg Allman’s beard must have looked like before he died, the same gold-straw color, drawn out thick. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, musings, prose, travel | Tagged Gregg Allman, Maxfield Parrish, Memoir, mid-life crisis, pacific northwest, prose, Scotland, sense imagery, travel, William Pearse writer, writing | 23 Comments