GayleEarly's Blog

• Queen of Belch

  August 28, 2009

  • It is one of my singular misfortunes that belching is considered bad manners.I am really good at it.My six brothers were both envious and proud that their little ol' sister had the biggest pipes in the house. All it took was a big juicy red apple or potato chips, and I would blast them out of the room, right off the dining room table. Like the soprano who shatters wine glasses, I shattered ear ...
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• A Good Walk Gone Better

  March 15, 2009

  • I was a little scared to go back.Someone with that much anger could go ballistic. I’ve experienced a person at the negative tipping point who’s tipped himself right into a psych ward. Society, bad formative experiences early in life, the culture–too much can overwhelm one’s coping mechanisms. But not everybody snaps. I took solace in that.Michael was nice, after our Good Walk Gone Bad ...
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• Hiking on the San Andreas Fault

  December 4, 2008

  • Scrambled eggs and rocksYou can’t have eggs without salt. I’m too far from my predatory roots to enjoy the quick snap and slurp of a stolen shell. I need to scramble my eggs on a propane-fueled cook stove, scramble them just like the heat- and pressure-scrambled rocks around us. Back in La Mesa, we moved the salt and pepper from the picnic basket to our emergency earthquake supplies, ...
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• A Good Walk Gone Bad

  December 4, 2008

  • Mondays are hard enough. But it helps to start out a new day walking to school with Megan. We tried to walk last year, but Tropico is a narrow, curving, hilly, blind-spotted road, and to get to school we thought we had to suck in exhaust from the zillions of SUVs flying past, as parents race to drop off their kids. And the school driveway is a snarl of cars, as well. It sucked so much I made ...
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• Ovary Puree

  August 25, 2008

  • Red ripe garden tomatoes. Yes, we know they're fruit. In fact, they're ovaries. Yes, fruit are the ovaries in the plant world, sorry to break it to you. Plucking each tomato's genetic lineage right off the vine, yesterday, hoping to end it in a lasagna, I filled my basket.  (Sure, I could harvest the pesky little seeds and start over next year, but I hate tomatoes. I planted them for a friend ...
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