I danced from the age of 13 all the way through college. I picked it up again at 24 and danced until I was 28. I performed. You could even say professionally, if you want to classify “they occasionally gave me money” as professional. Minus objective judgment and the ability to step outside my body [...]
Psychic ability is said to be helped along by head injuries – especially if you clonk yourself in the center of the forehead. When I was in first grade, I fell face first into the sharp metal edge of a cafeteria bench, slicing myself under the left eye so blood poured festively all down the [...]
My thought processes are an ever-shifting harmonic convergence of festering doubt and mewling anxiety. The human brain is a wonder, marvelous in its ability to twist events into something so far removed from reality as to be unrecognizable. (Or to qualify, in certain notable and best forgotten incidences, as certifiably insane.) Since there is no [...]
Many, many thanks to everyone who commented with bits of your life story. And thank you to everyone who read and thought about commenting before getting distracted by something else and wandering off (that’s my usual commenting style, so it’s one I can appreciate). I’ve been sick the past few days, so it’s been great [...]
My plan for Saturday was to go on a day trip – somewhere along the coast where I could walk on the beach and then stare at the sea and drink wine. If I was feeling really plucky, I could strike up a conversation with a stranger, one from which I would quickly retreat but [...]
My new work M.O. is to sit down at my computer and announce to all and sundry (otherwise known as my clock, my desk lamp, and the spider in the corner who’s either Thelma or Fred, I can’t be sure) that I’m going to write a bad first draft. A REALLY BAD first draft. By [...]
Helping Kristin and Scott move into their new apartment – not that I helped so much as I stood in the hallway exercising my pointer finger and realizing how much Spanish I’ve forgotten – I marveled over how much space they have. Room after room after room that wouldn’t require your average eagle to clip [...]
So I was probably scraping bloggity rock bottom the other day by describing my lunch, but I have to risk compounding that faux pas by talking more about these Fancy Turkey Sausage People. Karen left a comment requesting the origins of the sausages and I dutifully trotted over to the fridge to find out. (Names [...]
My favorite place to spend money is on what goes in my mouth. So when the Fancy Turkey Sausage People at the farmer’s market yell out, “Best meat in the world!” while proffering toothpicks full of insane spicy goodness, I turn on my heel to barrel over at the most efficient angle. Whether or not [...]
