1. Slight lift in spirits when the emotions that have been roiling in my gut ease off and I can take a gasping breath. This is always a nice moment. (Note to self: Read copy of The Female Brain I got for Christmas because DAMN! this thing needs an instruction manual.) 2. Giving the latest [...]
I’m feeling a bit low today. Oddly, it reminds me of emerging from a numb fog a week after a breakup. I was standing at the bus stop and remembered that there was a world around me. So I looked up at the sky. It was a crisp, brilliant blue and sun was pouring down. [...]
Yesterday afternoon, we were hiking with the dog and discussing my latest creative endeavor. Also known as “my latest exercise in idiocy” or “Why is the alarm going off at 7:00 a.m.? Who are you and what have you done with the girl who used to sleep here?” The dog has very specific ideas about [...]
My link list is quickly disintegrating from (semi) thoughtful commentary into the HA HA! FUNNY! realm. As a point of reference though, HA HA! FUNNY! is really the biggest compliment you can get from me. I don’t care if you make macrame ponies or clean between your teeth with a butcher’s knife – if you [...]
You really don’t want to read the first draft of this post, the one entitled Why I Love Blogs, a Dissertation of Prodigious Length and Dullness So Perhaps You Should Go Watch Lost Instead. For today’s purposes, let’s just note that I love to yell, “Yes! That’s precisely it!” at my understandably confused computer. I [...]
In my world, friends mean food. Only with less implied cannibalism. But, really, doesn’t everything mean food? Finish a paragraph, have a snack! Vacuum the rug, eat a cookie! Organize the closet, why you deserve a wheel of cheese! I try to convince myself that fancy tea is food so I can avoid weighing five [...]
I just finished my first short story. My first finished work of fiction since I forged that note about a “cold” to get myself out of ninth grade Algebra. I pranced out of the kitchen to declare my mastery of the English language to anyone who would listen (the dog totally ignored me, by the [...]
I woke up this morning thinking about the definition of aplomb. Dreaming about dictionaries is either a good sign or a bad one, but I don’t give any consideration to signs until after my second cup of coffee. And by the time I’ve had two cups of coffee, I’m too wired to care. I didn’t [...]
What I didn’t say (see: finishing thoughts, trouble with) is that I do believe in love at first sight. (Well, I did say that. I’m taking the thought to its conclusion. This is rare. Appreciate it.) And I do believe it can last for years, even to the much-touted til’ death, etc. I once fell [...]
I’m highly suspicious of love at first sight. It’s not that I don’t believe in it. I do. I’ve read romance novels and I know they tell only the pure, unmitigated truth about everything from immediate lasting affection to the probability of a heroine retaining her bouncy, shiny curls while lost in an Amazon rainforest [...]
