It’s funny what memories can do to you. I had breakfast with Lynn, my late best friend Carrie’s mother on my birthday back in February. My gift from her was her company and three photographs of my beloved girl. Two were photos of us together. The photo below stopped me in my tracks. Made my …
I am relaxing in a quiet, cozy home drinking a glass of nice wine (Rascal, a Pinot Noir from Oregon) and listening to Damien Rice. Lover is out for drinks with a friend and I am contemplating a eulogy for my carnival goldfish that lived for 7 full years. I won that damn goldfish at …
• restful and productive weekends • a clean house • quiet time among the trees • the joy and tastiness of REAL food. • good finds at the thrift store • courage (to take risks) • my lover and best friend Jennifer
Last Sunday would have been my friend Carrie’s 34th birthday. I felt emotional and sad and wanted desperately to just pull the covers up and hide for the entire day. I didn’t know how to handle it. My boss, an amazing woman suggested sending her a card; so I did. It was a comedy of …
If you are who you hang with and you don’t hang with many does that mean you are an original? Just thinkin’
I’m not sure it’s right proper to say that this year totally blew, since you know, I’m alive and kicking and all, with a roof over my head and a heart that’s broken but still beating. So I’ll just say that I was not a fan of 2011, not one bit, no, not at all. …
It seems so very àpropos ruminating about weight so closely after the biggest gorge-yourself-because-you-can holiday. I’ve been unhappy with mine for some time now, which is not a surprise since it has fluctuated greatly for much of my life. When it comes to height I’m a little spit of a thing, reaching 5 ft on …
I’ve been a crazy dreamer for the last few months. Odd, weird, senseless, amusing and scary – you name it and I’ve probably dreamt it. This past weekend I had my very first dream of Carrie. It was all wrapped up in a weird dream with scary things and then >poof< there she came, driving …
Lets face it, with all the Occupy (insert your state here) protests going on these days, money and the distribution of it is on a lot of folks minds. Frankly, money is always on my mind. How much we have, the lack of it, how to get save, how to get more, you get the …
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