I want it so bad - The Rainbow Box

Sometimes I get temporarily crazy looking for a thing I had and loved in my childhood. the past few days it has been this series of books:

This series is called the Rainbow Box. I luckily still own my favorite book from it, the Rabbit Box, a long poem that I often quote (including in the "about me" statement of my Facebook page for whatever that's worth). These books are incredibly out of print and expensive if you can manage to find them. My hope is that someone's hippie mom bequeathed these books to you and you don't have room for them in your book case and want to give/trade or sell them to me.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan by Robin Crane

I am at a mental hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had never been to this city before. My room is right next to the bay of telephones. I feel sad hearing so many patients start conversations with their friends or family and then so soon say, "Oh, you have to go? Well...goodbye."

Yours til Niagara Falls

When I found out a couple weeks ago that I will be having major surgery, it inspired me to make some home improvements within the next couple days. For starters, I had been sleeping on a memory foam mattress on the floor - I bought a bed frame, with storage space, and now the boxes that'd been in the corner of my room are out of sight. I also went to the bank to trade in a 20 dollar bill for quarters - the laundry room here doesn't have a change machine and I have often been out of quarters, perpetually chipping away at my laundry by hand washing it in the sink - low level depression housekeeping. The same day I got the quarters I did all my laundry, taking care of that subpar living condition that's often gnawed at my subconscious. I also stopped going to bed at 3:00 and waking up at 1:00, instead going to bed at midnight and waking up at 9:00. It's crazy how soon I changed, and I'm not completely sure why I'm doing it - the bed frame is going to help me when ...

Birthday Card Book

IN keeping with the more than usual focus on my mom, who passed away almost a year ago now, here is a book she made me for my 14th birthday.

sweetheart redux

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