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Sara Finnerty: October 2011
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Monday, October 17, 2011. Fall Foliage in California Exists! Mammoth Lakes, Eastern Sierra Nevada. I miss Fall. I miss the cool, crisp air, the hooded sweatshirts, the colors in the trees and on the ground. I miss walking to the train and kicking through little mounds of leaves. I miss Astoria Park and Central Park, literally aflame with falling red leaves in the low afternoon sun. Fall in Los Angeles is slow and spotted and lacks urgency. It is beautiful in its lingering, gentle way. Keith, who owns the...
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Sara Finnerty: New Website
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014. My dear husband and a friend of his made me a brand new, fancy-looking website! It has an updated bio and links to new published work. Posted by Sara Finnerty. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Links to Selected Writings and Readings:. Ete and updated list of publications at. The Girl in the Tree. Griffith Park Storytelling Series. Sarafinnerty (at) gmail.com. The Griffith Park Storytelling Series. Follow her on twitter:. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Sara Finnerty: May 2012
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Thoughts on Bruce Springsteen, NY, NJ, LA 2012. Some kind of magic happens at Bruce shows, some healing, beautiful, incessant energy that is almost impossible to find in other live music. Know someday I'll find the key. I am twelve but there is something happening to me here in the dark, listening to these gentle words. He is talking to me. I know someday I'll walk out of here again, but now I'm TRAPPED. I won't walk out a loser. But now I'm trapped. MY CITY OF RUINS. We have lost ...
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Sara Finnerty: Open Space, Utah Road Trip, Mt. Baldy
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Open Space, Utah Road Trip, Mt. Baldy. How does change happen? What if you follow a formula and it doesn't work? What if you do everything you are supposed to do and you still wake up with knots in your chest, your heart hammering, worry wrinkles cutting into your forehead? What if you still try to control what you will never, ever be able to control? The Navajo Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park. The Navajo Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park. Why do we travel? To see new things?
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Sara Finnerty: March 2013
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Friday, March 08, 2013. Got me thinking about the major coincidences in my life and what, if anything, they may mean. In my late teens I dreamt of boys and shortly thereafter would meet them in real life and in each case, I thought, he must be my soul mate. This must mean something. It must. I dreamed him. Here he is. I may not actually believe in god or in prayer, but I believe that you can tell yourself a story. I believe in stories. In the episode, the man who puts the one-day-classified-ad band toget...
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Sara Finnerty: October 2013
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Thursday, October 10, 2013. An essay I wrote years ago is up on The Weeklings. It's twice as long as what's published and the story only gets more disturbing. I like to say that my writing is unpublishable, but that's not true. Each piece just needs to find it's home, even if it takes five years. Here is the link: Licks. Posted by Sara Finnerty. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Links to Selected Writings and Readings:. Ete and updated list of publications at. The Girl in the Tree. Follow her on twitter:.
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Sara Finnerty: August 2013
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Wildwood and Summer, and Chaos and Peace. Last week, I went to Wildwood, New Jersey, with my husband, and a bunch of family, ten people altogether. In my youth we went to Wildwood every summer. He said come here, come here. He wanted to give me a kiss. My husband and I walked down the aisle together at his sister's wedding, as a groomsman and bridesmaid. I love my husband and it has been nine years and I only love him more as time goes by and I think that we must be lucky.
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Sara Finnerty: January 2012
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Friday, January 13, 2012. I Once Was a Blue Whale. I've always loved Big Things. I like to be on top of buildings. I love Giant Trees and the Statue of Liberty. The ocean and the albatross. The night sky and snow-capped mountains. I like things that make me feel small, because I've always been a Big Thing myself. As seen from underneath the Blue Whale. They were loners (like me! And no one really understood them (yes! My first kiss wasn't under the whale- it was in the dinosaur room. My husband and I...
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Sara Finnerty: Sequoia
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Thursday, July 04, 2013. Another TED talk says to raise your arms up in the air or stand like Wonder Woman and instantly, you will feel less stress, more happiness. In almost every picture of me that weekend, I have my arms up in the air. There are fallen sequoias everywhere, and in their footprints new sequoias grow, and the dead giants slowly disintegrate back into the forest floor. Everything happens for a reason and that reason is to keep the world turning, keep life alive. I don’t know how to ...