MOI CANCER-FREE MOM COACH-ES GABRIELA!

So, Coach has provided me with go-to bags over the years. I think it’s because my acquisition of my first Coach bag symbolized my then new adult independence. Plus, my first Coach bag was a black leather bag that kept getting tattered and all I had to do was send it to a Coach factory in New Jersey and they were always happy to repair it for free—I still have it today. Anyway, got a new Coach bag today and here is Gabriela trying it on:



Said bag was part of a retail celebration Mom and I embarked on this afternoon to celebrate this morning’s news: she’s now FREE OF CANCER! Wooooot! Promptly therewith, Mom decided to attempt to heal the economy with several purchases including my newest daily Coach!

But Mom didn’t just buy bags…or shoes….a watch for Michael…and various other sundries—she also purchased some poetry books for me … Which is to say, this of course was just a way to provide another update to my Recently Bought Poetry List, to wit:

FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza

HAVE by Marc Gaba

OLD WAYS TO FOLD NEW PAPER by Leza Lowitz

THE REAL SUBJECT: QUERIES AND CONJECTURES OF JACOB DELAFON WITH SAMPLE POEMS by Keith Waldrop

COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

TRANSFER by Naomi Shihab Nye

PERSPECTIVES ON A GRAFTED TREE: THOUGHTS FOR THOSE TOUCHED BY ADOPTION, poetry anthology edited by Patricia Irwin Johnston

For my blog file, I’ll also add my poetry purchases for Kindle (though these are free from Kindle):

LEAVES OF GRASS by Walt Whitman

POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

THE ODYSSEY by Homer

ILIAD by Homer

Poetry purchases--it'll help keep the doctor away!