80

before I married

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 80 people with my old name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

18 people named Mary Taitt

There are 18 people in the USA with my new name. I don't know how accurate it is, though. No one is listed in the USA with my son's name.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 18 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

My wish list

Erwin says that I would like Breaking open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck , so I'm putting that on my wishwish, LOL!

Also The Lady and the Panda: The True... by Vicki Croke

The wishlist is a hopeless mess.  :-(

Closing reception, November 10

The public is invited to a

Closing Reception

for

"Baker's Dozen"

An eclectic assortment of works by 13 Central New York Artists

Friday November 10, 6 - 8pm

May Memorial Art Gallery

3800 East Genesee St. Syracuse

Marna Bell Frank Caledone Joseph Cerio John Fitzsimmons Harry Freeman Jones

Holly Knott Mick Mather Marilyn Nosewicz Mary Stebbins Taitt Thomas Steiner Margaret Walden

Deborah Walsh Joan Applebaum

I have two pieces in this show but will not be able to attend because I will be in Pennsylvania doing a poetry reading.

Frost and Snow

I woke up this morning to snow on the ground.  Not a lot, not even as much as last time.  It's little round pellets cupped in the leaves as if each one were serving some frosty delight.  And frosty it is, a good thick white frost which is still heavy on the roofs and car tops but faded from the warmer earth.  The leaves are dropping like rain, as if the frost had released their lifegrip on the trees.

Upcoming Readings

I haven't been blogging much because I have two upcoming poetry readings and an new art show opening.  I spent the morning so far revising a poem from 1981 or before for those readings.  One was supposed to be held at Laci's at the Farmer's Market in Syracuse, NY at 7 PM on November 4th, but I've just learned that the owner has a family medical emergency in Florida and the event might be canceled or postponed.  Since I was planning on driving 8 or 9 hours to get the the event, I hope I learn what's going on with it soon, as I was planning on leaving the day after tomorrow.  Meanwhile, my best wishes and prayers to the owner and her family!

Halloween--tonight

Happy Halloween!

This is a really long exposure. It's hard to hold still that long! 

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween, from me. This is the first of what may be several Halloween Posts. I'm predating this (posting it ahead). Erin has announced that she will post and has invited others to do the same. This is me while preparing for the MOST halloween party, in the MOST bathroom. (It was in 2002; I haven't worked there for several years now.)

Happy Halloween!!

This is not an old photo, this is me now. Manipulated of course, for effect.

I'd like to note that I used a "caricature action" to produce a caricature of myself as a witch based on a stereotype. I don't mean to belittle real Wiccan "Witches" who believe in or practice Wicca. Wicca is the old religion, Paganism. It is based in part on the seasons and the movements of the moon. Halloween is a seasonal holiday, halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice.

In Wicca, the "crone" is the "wise woman." I am a crone, because I have pssed menopause, but society and family no longer regards old women as wise, but only as useless and in the way and as a burden. Very few turn to the crone for advice any more. Instead, we shuffle our old ones off into the nursing homes or leave them to live (and die) alone in their homes.

But I didn't mean to write a treatise on Wicca or on aging, simply to wish you a Happy Halloween, however you choose to celebrate. 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween From Me!