venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: First Drawing
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2010/06/first-drawing.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in the Manifest Gallery International Drawing Annual Exhibit (INDA5), Fall 2010. http:/ www.manifestgallery.org/nda/inda5/. What did a man have that a woman didn’t? Most of the time, I could recognize a man as a man and a woman as a woman. But some of the time, it was unclear. I struggled to put down what I knew about man-ness and woman-ness. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2009/03/out-of-cookie-jar-and-into-sand.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand. This follows the previous essay, "Shipwrecked". John and I took this journey in February 2009. Ur son Ivan is now sand. Perhaps from the bridge over the Cedar River, a few blocks from our house, where bald eagles soar. Or down river, where swallows skim the water, collecting bugs. Or maybe, in our backyard garden where tombstones mark long gone pets. We have to get back.” I ...The pla...
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: June 2010
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in the Manifest Gallery International Drawing Annual Exhibit (INDA5), Fall 2010. http:/ www.manifestgallery.org/nda/inda5/. What did a man have that a woman didn’t? Most of the time, I could recognize a man as a man and a woman as a woman. But some of the time, it was unclear. I struggled to put down what I knew about man-ness and woman-ness. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: Shipwrecked
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2009/03/shipwrecked.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This essay was published in "Mourning Sickness, Stories and Poems about Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss". My drawing, Stillbirth on Black Paper, was used as the book's cover art. Later that night, I lay on the daybed in the study. Our nurse-midwife, Nancy leaned over me. A stethoscope connected her ears to my eight-month mountainous belly. Nothing. No sound of life. Later, I wiped him dry and swaddled him, as if he w...
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: February 2009
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. This was written in June 1998 and broadcast as a commentary for KUNI Iowa Public Radio. My drawing is of my mother Betty Milner, the champ. "Betty, at the Walker 1980" is pen and ink. I recently found it in her files. 160;I got it half price. My shoes? 160;I left the store with the clothes I needed and a discount I was ambivalent about. My mother left like a champ leaving the ring. Links to this post.
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: March 2009
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. Out of the Cookie Jar and into the Sand. This follows the previous essay, "Shipwrecked". John and I took this journey in February 2009. Ur son Ivan is now sand. Perhaps from the bridge over the Cedar River, a few blocks from our house, where bald eagles soar. Or down river, where swallows skim the water, collecting bugs. Or maybe, in our backyard garden where tombstones mark long gone pets. We have to get back.” I ...The pla...
venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com
Venus At the Checkout: April 2008
http://venusatthecheckout.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html
Venus At the Checkout. Personal Essays and Commentaries by Marcia Milner-Brage. Etty Milner, my mother, died on August 31, 2007. Over the years, I have written about her. . I have drawn pictures of her. . 160;Now is the time to gather these imprints and maybe generate some new ones. Her life is mine to share. . Links to this post. Venus at the Checkout. This originated as a commentary, written and broadcast on KUNI Iowa Public Radio, in 1997. Iercing the pale upper rim of her navel is a small ring.
