http://www.zosiablue.com Now with more brown Tue, 06 May 2008 15:56:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I last drove on a highway in June 2002. I was in Hopkins that summer. I'd run away from Duluth for a few months to get my head together after a bruisy spring in which I managed to destroy my relationship and my theatre career in one punch. ... http://www.zosiablue.com/archives/2008/05/05/the-highway/ My brother finds a newborn kitten in my parents' shed, so young it still has the umbilical cord attached. He takes it inside, places it in a basket over a heating pad and calls the vet. For two days, every few hours, he feeds it kitten formula through ... http://www.zosiablue.com/archives/2008/04/28/four-more-and-one-dream/ Photo by Coco 1. A flask of blackstrap rum spilling down my face and black dress in the fancy bathroom of an upscale restaurant as I wait for Coco to take the photo. 2. Singing obnoxiously in a whiskey bluster with Chris as Rick belts out Hey, Jude on stage. Abbey, ... http://www.zosiablue.com/archives/2008/04/25/5-scenes-from-the-past-two-weeks-part-one/ I've never mastered the art of belonging. As I see it, to be a good friend or partner or daughter, you have to let people own you a little. Your sister has her own idea of who you are, and what your obligations are to her, and it's ... http://www.zosiablue.com/archives/2008/04/06/that-fine-relaxer/ I have trouble with ambition and the minutia involved because I'm too interested in sitting in the backyard with my new 80-pound, 8-year-old German Shepherd. She runs along the fence with the neighbor dog, bowing down and barking when Neighbor Dog sticks her nose through the slats. There's ... http://www.zosiablue.com/archives/2008/03/09/the-animals-outnumber-me/