August 17, 2013

  • Getting these new floors was kind of like getting a whole new house!

    Getting these new floors was kind of like getting a whole new house!

    The house looks different, sounds different, smells different… and since everything was moved and moved again and some of it moved back to where it was but some not… I’m aching to clean everything, rearrange some furniture, and make the house even more “mine” (sorry, Tim). It’s not giving me the disjointed, unconnected feeling I

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  • Home again, home again

    Home again, home again

    Of course my house looks NOTHING like what it does in this ten-years-old picture I’m using for my post image… and I have a different car… and I think that mug might have gotten broken a couple of years ago. But… yes! I am home! And it feels like a completely different house with the

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  • Alas, Babylon

    Alas, Babylon

    I grew up on dystopian science fiction. I was fascinated with reading about how people might survive after the collapse of civilization as we know it… I’d have little daydreams of “oh, I’ll remember this in case there’s ever an “after”….” …. (you can’t tell me that someone who saw The Day After on TV

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  • Am I there yet?

    Am I there yet?

    So, the more I think about it, and reflect on all the travel I’ve done this year, I’ve decided that I love seeing places and things I haven’t seen before but I absolutely detest getting there. Packing. Well, you can’t bring too much, because you have to be able to wrangle your own bags (I

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  • I want

    I want

    I want a big red car I want fancy new guitar I want a house with a big back deck And I want to come home with a big paycheck I want to not be so tired at the end of the day. I used to put dishes in the dishwasher and wipe down the

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  • Brain Dump

    Brain Dump

    I have a lot of things floating around in my head taking up space, so I went to do a “brain dump” the other day and I realized after staring at a blank sheet of paper for about five minutes… that my brain dump is so huge I almost need to start with the categories

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