rinsemiddlebliss
"At the mercy of the geography"
These streets aren’t made for walking, but that's just what we'll do
Visiting Los Angeles without a car
by AK Krajewska
I always assumed that you had to have a car to get anywhere in Los Angeles. I don’t like driving and don’t normally drive, but I thought, you have to in LA. The last time I was here, or at least I think that was the last time Continue reading (465 words)
Not exactly wild, not exactly abandoned
A walk through San Francisco’s Presidio
by AK Krajewska
The first time I wandered into the Presidio by way of Mountain Lake Park, I wasn’t sure if I was even supposed to be there. Behind a chain link fence stood rows of empty houses, boarded up, painted white and then graffitied, with the grass around them overgrown. Feral calla lilies bloomed all... Continue reading (568 words)
Review: The Moon Moth and Rose/House
Science-fiction murder mysteries by Jack Vance and Arkady Martine
by AK Krajewska
I didn’t intend to have some kind of crossover noir murder mystery science fiction novella double feature when I read “The Moon Moth” and Rose/House on the same weekend. I just wanted to read Jack Vance’s “The Moon Moth” (1961)... Continue reading (1933 words)
One bug may hide another
Debugging my garden, metaphorically and literally
by AK Krajewska
I’ve been gardening lately, trying to turn the little lawn in my backyard into a California native plant sanctuary. The grass dies back in the summer, even with watering, and it’s not very attractive. At first, I decided to cut it back, hoping that if I cut the yellowing grass on top, I’d let the grass from the bottom grow in. Continue reading (1583 words)
Fragments from the first year of the plague
Sort-of-poems and sort-of-word-art fragments
by AK Krajewska
During the first year of the pandemic, I could not even finish a poem. I just wrote fragments. However I was able to kind of draw, and so I ended up with a lot of bits of words and ink and pen drawings. Continue reading (625 words)