Holiday Happy Dance Merry Christmas from the S.P. Laws staff! -Shannon, Brad, Vin, Robert, and Byung-hun Click HERE to view our holiday card in Super-High-Speed Definition™ So, how was your 2014? What a mixed bag of nuts, right. A large group of protesters stage a “die-in” on the street in response Monday in SeattleContinueContinue reading “Christmas Card 2014”
Category Archives: Madrona Grove
Poem: Girl Chases Hat
Late night keys dangle in the wind clouds move along the sky river wind swirls low to pick up anything not tied down, not held down There goes her hat! The thing that will keep her warm tonight stomped by feet of shoppers, rejected as trash her hat, made for one head. Rain wetsContinueContinue reading “Poem: Girl Chases Hat”
DNA Part Three: The Test Is In
The Test is In So today, the day after Thanksgiving, I receive the results from my DNA test with 23andMe. Logging in I went straight to the “My Results” tab. My hands were shaking a bit. I wondered if there would be an immediate DNA match, perhaps 6-12% or more, with another person on file.ContinueContinue reading “DNA Part Three: The Test Is In”
DNA Part Two: The Waiting
Part Two The Waiting I’m getting close to the day. The day my 23andMe DNA test will return and I’ll know my genetic heritage. I’ve decided to share the results with my two children first, then my mom and brother, (my father has passed). Then share it here. The story will not end with theContinueContinue reading “DNA Part Two: The Waiting”
It’s Time for Ham!
Since 2010 I have posted this story around the holidays. It has become a Madrona Grove tradition. The ham story is a about generations and tradition. My mother’s mid-western family has many traditions. One that is especially unique is making fresh Oyster Stew on New Years. My mother’s Minnesotan family originates from the Rhine RiverContinueContinue reading “It’s Time for Ham!”
Essay: Fresh Water
This semester I took an essay class. The instructor provided us with topics and sources to be sited. I decided to write about the global water crisis. This essay normally would be considered too long for a blog post, but the issue has my attention. Doing research on a topic, exploring it, and developing yourContinueContinue reading “Essay: Fresh Water”
Poem: A Skin Suit Sewn Too Tightly
Red rock of Bisbee calls the ghosts out as a doctor sucks poison from a bite Back come the dead to walk again reincarnation of secondhand spirits —as secondhand furniture The dresser is painted now The couch new cloth The set of chairs split apart The headboard used for vines In your years ofContinueContinue reading “Poem: A Skin Suit Sewn Too Tightly”
DNA Part One: It Begins
I have a 23andMe DNA kit and I’m not afraid to use it! If you follow my blog or know me a little more than most—like the way one may “know” Nutella after eating half a container—then you’ll know that I am adopted. Orphaned, then adopted. I literally made it 40 years not knowingContinueContinue reading “DNA Part One: It Begins”
Poem: Dust
Bands sunbeams twinkle with flecks of our skin rubbed off from touch, rubbed off as dry soil spinning from a sedimentary cliff layers of time pressed into the stripes we call days ***
Poem: Dead Tongues Tell No Tales
Cut out laid out on a sheet, in a row Pierced and strung hung ’round the neck The cutter, the puller yanks out grabs full Eyes of the carver cold as a tomb Red drops run down, never away
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