Your agony’s your heaviest load
Lorena
I’ve been kind of moody the last week or so, and I’ve narrowed it down to my poor yarn store. At first I thought it was because the three of…
Navel Gazing
I’m beat, I’m torn; shattered and tossed, and worn
Lyrics to Trouble (previously seen as a Song of the Week here) copyright Cat Stevens Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it’s too much…
Randomosity
Remember the saga of the homeowners insurance? JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE. We got another letter, I think the week before last (my amazing powers to block this…
So you say you want a Resolution, well, you know; we all want to change the world
(Apologies, there, about the paraphrase…) It’s that time of year when people are making grand sweeping statements about how THIS IS THE YEAR THAT EVERYTHING CHANGES! They’re going to exercise…
A brief observation
This under/self-employment feels a bit like summer vacation. I think that’s because I used to go to G-ma’s house every summer, and we would spend a lot of time sitting…
Today is the last day; today is the first day
I keep waking up with a song lyric in my head – “where do we go from here, now that all of the —” but I don’t remember what THE…
If this is ultimately going to be OK, why do I keep bursting into tears?
This is one of those good news/bad news things. Which do you want first? I love the answer my friend Susan gave us when we asked her this last night…
In which I tell myself it’s the weather
(Originally posted January 18, 2007) I didn’t want to walk this morning. I wound up walking, just only for about 40 minutes, tops. I tried to tell myself that it…
Reset! RESET!
So, I took a few days off from work – two on either side of my usual day off, making it a FIVE DAY WEEKEND, YO! And I may have…
I wish you could walk with me in the mornings
I have been, as the song goes, one poor correspondent and too too hard to find; but it doesn’t mean you ain’t been on my mind. I wish you could…
The one where I do what my mother would do
Yesterday on my drive to work, about five houses down from me, I thought I saw a burned-out firefighters coat in the yard of a house. “That can’t be what…
Zen and the Art of the only book I’ve not been able to finish reading, twice
(Originally published on March 7, 2008) Zen and the Art of the only book I’ve not been able to finish reading, twice There are so many places I could have…