Lisa Loomis's Blog, page 55

Lake Powell

Tomorrow we leave on my daughters graduation trip.  My husband and I are taking eight teenagers to Lake Powell for a few days.  We will camp, well sort of, on a houseboat, and we have a ski boat for play.  I think it will be an interesting time to be in such close quarters with these kids.  Hmm possibly some research for future book characters.

Grunter

"The grunter grunted again, the sound rising above the other sounds of the gym, weights clinking, cables clanking, tennis shoes hitting the treadmills, even over the music.  Stella cringed."--Lisa Loomis (Gem Rats)



 

Snow

"The following week it started to snow and it kept on coming right up till Christmas.  Every day I woke up and it was snowing, snow and more snow."--Lisa Loomis (Casanova Cowboy)

So close

"When we made love this time I felt like I was drowning in him.  It was like waves coming in and pushing me down.  My emotions so close to the surface I was afraid they might spill out.  I held on hoping this Mathew would stay."--Lisa Loomis (Boy in a Band)

Hot summer nights

"The interaction between her parents was almost nonexistent.  At the time, not knowing any different, Jillian thought nothing of it.  Sometimes on hot summer nights though, when she left her window open to the backyard, she would hear her mother crying softly on the back porch."--Lisa Loomis (Gem Rats)

Graduation

My daughter Hunter is graduating from high school tomorrow.  It seems strange that both my kids will be finished with high school--finished, over.  My own high school graduation is still fresh in my memory, the feelings, the smells; seems it can't have been that long ago but my children prove that it was.  I feel like my kids are so much smarter than I was at their age, maybe they aren't but I would like to think so.  I felt so grown up then, but I really wasn't at all----I had so much more to learn and a lot of times I learned it the hard way.  Sometimes I'm still doing that.  So tomorrow I will watch Park City High's 2012 graduates, and I will no doubt cry, but it's a good thing.





My kids

Homesickness

" It took three weeks and Thanksgiving dinner for me to finally feel the first pangs of homesickness.  I missed my friends, my parents, and even Max.  The snow was slow in coming and work was not steady. "--Lisa Loomis (Casanova Cowboy) 

Warm eyes

"Linda couldn’t take her eyes off him, running to catch the Frisbee, throwing it, the sun catching highlights in his brown hair as he moved.  When he took a break he came to talk to her.  He sat on the sand with his hands carelessly draped around his knees.  His eyes were warm, and blue green in color."--Lisa Loomis (Gem Rats)



 

White shorts

"Unfortunately I didn’t hide it well and although we didn’t talk about it they all sort of alluded to something between us.  I saw Mathew and Bobby coming down the sidewalk.  Mathew had on a pair of white shorts, his shirt left open half way down his chest.  It was light blue and sort of sloppy.  I straightened myself a bit in the chair."--Lisa Loomis (Boy in a Band)

Pat

"Pat had always been the one not to follow the rules.  He lived by his own compass, which was directionally challenged most of the time."--Lisa Loomis (Casanova Cowboy)