Today, with the girls away for a few days, I slept in. I pressed snooze 20 times.

I walked downtown for a misto.

I browsed in Value Village and found a turquoise velveteen jacket for spring for only $10.

I bought frozen organic blueberries and ate them at the kitchen counter.

I looked through a music contract and thought about my crappy blue couch covered in stains and wondered if one day, I will not have to play in bars with the blender going in the background, wondered if maybe I could actually own a nice couch one day.

I sat on the front steps in the sun.

I took a nap.

I read from my favorite book.

I made tea every 5 minutes.

I did not check my email or even turn the computer on.

I ate a delicious salad made of chick peas, sprouts, walnuts and organic greens.

I ran along the water. No one was out and I could hear it lapping at the sides of the cement walls along the boardwalk.

I saw a red-winged blackbird in the reeds of the marsh, and then another, and then another. I heard them too, their song which sounds a little like a referee whistle 3 octoves too low.

I swallowed a bug. It came too fast and before I knew it it was down.

I imagined it drowning in my half-digested salad.