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Bluebird Blvd. is moving! Also, I am taking a brain vacation. I have the tired.

            I will be taking the next week off to complete the move of Bluebird Blvd. from its .com home to its .org framework (with Bluehost hosting!) Next week will be… more →

Bluebird Blvd.

Bluebird Blvd. is moving! Also, I am taking a brain vacation. I have the tired. — 5 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 weeks ago:             I will be taking the next week off to complete the move of … more →

Tags: instant bluebird, a teeny working vacation, thank you all so much, Bluebird Blvd, Moving, org, Hugging y'all!

O, Death. If You See Me Coming, You Better Run. — 9 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 weeks ago:             But yield who will to their separation, My object in livin … more →

Tags: Grandmother, Life, Birthday, death, Grief, My avocation and my vocation is to unite, 900th post

Some Hours Are More Secret Than Others (So I Made You a Live-Broadcast Mix Tape) — 4 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 3 weeks ago:             Well, I couldn’t sleep last night. Nothing helped. N … more →

Tags: Audiobook Version, Music, insomnia, live broadcast, mixtape for you, Grooveshark, avec extra love! Mas y mas!, I am the product of two professional radio rock station

There's A Tale About Me I've Been Itching To Share — 22 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:             From the age of nineteen onward, I have written for pay. T … more →

Tags: writing, Art, Blogging, Money, Why is it taboo for artists to make money?, American ideologies, the starving artist is the stupidest archetype I know

Adulthood CONFIDENTIAL! Get Your Damn Foot Off the Brake. — 10 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:             THE OTHER DAY, I found myself riding in my friend’s car th … more →

Tags: [Adulthood Confidential!], Grandmother, Grief, near Big Bend, a very long but broken up extended nature metaphor, The Fear as described by Hunter S. Thompson, Please go easy on your brakes in the rain.

Borderlands Kōan

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:             …in the beginning a monk first thinks a kōan is an i … more →

Tags: languages, Now you should look up the history of code switching, Borderlands, border culture, one hand claps and the other waves at passing cars, What is a border?, koan, on the border, Living

Antoine's Cake — 17 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:         The Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoine before she became the Dauphine of … more →

Tags: writing, Reading, insomnia, Royalty, Antonia Fraser, the self and the state are not one, the more you had— the more limited your choices, the less you had— the more limited your choices

The Olla Podrida of Ogden Avenue — 14 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:                 (Hey!  This post contains some standard … more →

Tags: writing, Texas, Humor, Coffeehouse, humour, Give me an "A" for TEENAGE ANGST!, the wheelchair flasher, SWAT Team, College Life

The Universe, According to My Husband — 28 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:         Give me a sec to catch up on my notes.  Earth = round thing?   … more →

Tags: Humor, Marriage, The Husband, Life, Science, universe, Dr. Robert Goddard, Explaining science to people who have brains made of Sw

What I'm Thinking About, Is Darkness — 2 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 1 month ago:             I write about the dark a great deal, and I’ve never given … more →

Tags: Writing #2, truth and Truth, The STory of Us, symbolism, dark, Darkness, the stories you write when you grow up rough

Adulthood CONFIDENTIAL! Enough. — 8 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:             Dedicated to six girls, now women.  You were beautifu … more →

Tags: [Adulthood Confidential!], weight later in life, sizeist, the self perceiving the self, Media Messages, being part of the media, how men perceive themselves, how women perceive themselves, writing about one's body is more difficult than jugglin

I Was a Teenage Irish Stepdancer! Or, A Few Notes on Irish Stepdancing That I've Been Meaning to Write Down for Years Now — 33 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:         STOP!  Did someone in the audience call Irish Dancing FOLK DANCING? … more →

Tags: Humor, humour, St. Patrick's Day, Irish stepdancing, Irish dancing is not folk dancing., Irish dancing is not riverdancing., A Post-Michael Flatley Irish Dancing world still has to, Irish Dance Fighting is so hot this year. So hot.

Los Pobrecitos Metamorphoses Playing H-O-R-S-E

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:         Of course, these impulsive, hormone-filled Boy Scouts didn't find a way … more →

Tags: metamorphose, Please give me enough earplugs to get through the next , Tolerance, Humanity is amazing!, a wonderland of changing voices and impulsive gawky fig, Serenity NOW!!!, Metamorphosis, Compassion for the teen hormone afflicted among us., Teenagers

In a Minute, Anything Can Change — 3 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:             Yesterday, there was a mixup. My friend R.— and I planned … more →

Tags: COLOR, Black and White, Photo Essay, Coffee, COFFEE SHOP, Diner

In Calving Season — 2 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:             This morning, I woke in a snarl of blankets and dogs with … more →

Tags: writing, Texas, Dreaming, Calving Season, the conscious self, a child is her own universe, Adult Life, The Subconscious Self

Color, I Exhaled — 6 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:             Last week, my mother called. “I’ve got clothes for you. An … more →

Tags: The Bluebird Pillow Book, [Adulthood Confidential!], Color Theory, every hue is a recollection, I will remember you by the colors you wore that day

Insomnolence (A List) — 16 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 2 months ago:             It begins with a single night, working late. The lamplight … more →

Tags: The Bluebird Pillow Book, insomnia, Writing #2, Sleeplessness, the need to sleep is greater than any desire to stay aw

Organizational Strategies for the Hyperexcitable — 6 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 3 months ago:             A few weeks after the new year started, I sat down with a … more →

Tags: Lists, Humor, humour, Organization, I are organized, RSS? What is that?, Digital Media, digitally disorganized

The Breath Between Frames: Meditations on the Self-Portrait — 18 comments

Courtenay Bluebird wrote 3 months ago:             It’s midnight. I am wearing a white dress, and a har … more →

Tags: writing, Photography, What story are we telling?, theories on self-portraiture, If you're wearing wings you have to walk through doors


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