by Sasha Stone | Feb 3, 2019 | Bob Dylan, In Dreams, Obsessions, POETS, ROCKGODS, THE WEIRDNESS OF LIFE, TO MUSE
One of the best Bob Dylan songs without a doubt is I’ll Keep it With Mine. It’s so good, of course, that PJ Harvey quotes it in her song Oh My Lover. “Give me your troubles, I’ll keep them with mine.” There is, of course, the famous Nico...
by Sasha Stone | May 15, 2018 | FAMILY
My dad is dying. He’s really finally going. He’s been going for a year now about. I watched the slow decline of someone who did not think anything was wrong with him, refused any sort of treatment for what ailed him, and then his body just decided it was...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 29, 2016 | KIDOME
I have been wanting to put down my thoughts about raising my beautiful daughter somewhere. I guess this is as good a place as any. I laid down my head last night, once again putting another day to bed. That meant one whole day was now gone as time sets its paces...
by Sasha Stone | Dec 12, 2015 | Blog 'em and Weep, FAMILY
Since we moved I’ve had to drive Emma to school every morning and every afternoon, which takes about an hour. At first I was annoyed. Interstate five is overcrowded with cargo trucks rattling down the congested highway, beater cars cutting in front of you every...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 15, 2014 | FAMILY, TO MUSE
I don’t know about you but most mornings I wake up and think, wow, I’m alive another day. It feels sometimes like Groundhog Day in that the same problems and torments rise up, rinse, repeat. But it is also another morning with a body that works, in a...
by Sasha Stone | Aug 13, 2013 | AGING, Blog 'em and Weep, KIDOME, TO MUSE
I remember when I first became a mother. I remember because I couldn’t let go of my baby. Literally. I held onto her for a full two weeks, I think, after a long and painful labor. I remember being challenged by the (now seeming simple) act of breastfeeding. I...