Shedding

My uterus is shedding its monthly lining, ripping away in chunks that have me drinking Advil. My black pants and shirt have tiny white hairs from Sandy, where she shed as I turned her over to a stranger, and her big eyes looked at me for reassurance. My heart is shedding in evil chunks from self hatred and grief.

Column

I meet with a local alternative weekly next Tuesday to talk about writing a weekly column for them. I'm working around some kind of idea where each column would feature a photograph I've taken for the week, and commentary/conversation about it.

The photos might be faces, events, whatever interests me. And the writing a kind of introspective musing about whatever it sparks off in me. Kind of a conversation with the reader about the picture in a deeper, more analytical, sometime's psychological, and often personal perspective.

Title Ideas
This is kind of tough. I want something that hints at in-depth interpretations and thoughts, local flavor, and maybe the image thing.
More Than Meets The Eye
Conversations
Motown Meets The Eye
Looking Deeper
Under the Skin
Beyond Skin Deep
Picture Picture
One-way Conversations
Photo OPinion
Just a Glimpse
Overt Exposure
Exposures by P. Robst
Nothing clicking just yet. But something will. I'll post my first, sample column when it's written.

Giant Picture of the Day

Girl in the Backyard.

Your Assignment For Today

Go for it.

Well there you are!

So on the 29th, I find this little dog. Life since then has been batting away the stress and bogue feelings that come with fostering, and trying frantically to find her home. And in the meantime, for good measure, a backed up sewer, getting writing group critique for the first time, a pissed off friend, a festival I thought I was going to relax into, feeding and medicating my sister's two dogs and cat 40 minutes away, flies tending to their young in the sludge in my basement, and a sinus headache overlapping the tension. Oh yeah, and buying a digital camera (Fuji S5000) which I LOVE that broke yesterday, but I'm going to take it back today and hopefully they'll replace it no problems. I'm on my second sick day from work. I need to buy shampoo, that's for sure.