Posts in the “FAMILIA” category
Perchta
by angeliska on January 6, 2013
Pandora Gastelum of The Mudlark Confectionary and The Mudlark Public Theatre lovingly created this incredible art doll of the Two-Faced Goddess Perchta for my birthday last year, and I’ve been meaning to share both images of her creation and her (…)
Family Vacation – Hank Williams' Grave
by angeliska on August 8, 2012
When I was six years old, my mother and father and I drove from Taylor, Texas to Montgomery, Alabama to make a pilgrimage to Hank Williams’ grave. This was to be our first, last and only family vacation. At the (…)
Eastertimes
by angeliska on April 5, 2012
It’s almost time for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Garden Party! I’ve always loved this holiday, ever since I was little. I don’t think I ever absorbed the religious implications – I was raised Episcopalian (aka. Catholic Lite) and (…)
Goodnight, Grampa
by angeliska on March 25, 2012
Tomorrow is my Grampa’s public memorial service. It’s been a month since he left this world, left his body and all of us behind. It’s hard to fathom, still. That vacancy, a lacuna where there was once such a big (…)
Charles Lessing Polacheck, R.I.P.
by angeliska on February 29, 2012
Charles Lessing Polacheck, R.I.P. born January 19th, 1914 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – died February 27th, 2012 in Austin, Texas How do I begin? How can I possibly encapsulate a life so broad, so full of incredible achievement, tragedy, drama and (…)
Star-crossed Troubadours
by angeliska on August 8, 2011
Today marks twenty-five years since my mother died. This last winter solstice, I had a profound vision during a ceremony: an old black telephone appeared before me, hunched in celluloid, with a rotary dial. I could feel the weight of (…)
Happy Birthday Pandora!
by angeliska on July 22, 2011
Today marks a very special holiday indeed – the birthday of my dearest darling, Miss Pandora Gastelum. In lieu of getting to celebrate her whelping with her (the travesty of why this cannot be is detailed below), I am writing (…)
Eastertide
by angeliska on April 23, 2011
Eastertime is almost here! I can almost taste the candyfloss melting on my tongue, and those speckled chocolate robin’s eggs. I’m busy getting everything ready for our annual Easter Egg Hunt and Garden Party on Sunday, and remembering what a (…)
Krew du Poüx!
by angeliska on February 24, 2010
Hello, hello! Many apologies for the long absence and all the tumbleweeds drifting around these parts! I am returned from my travels, which proved far too fun and chaotically action-packed to do any of the updates I had anticipated. In (…)
Blue Moon
by angeliska on December 30, 2009
Here we go, darlings – on the precipice of a new year, and just nearly ready to dry our sticky wings on the other side of the future! 2010, for real? I mean, doesn’t it seem slightly preposterous, as if (…)
