[crow]Okay, I promise I won’t let this go to my head, but apparently (according to my teacher, anyway), I’m doing very well on the organ. Extraordinary, I think she put it, outstanding, fantastic - just a few of the words I heard (several times) over the course of my last lesson. [/crow ( Read more... )

Somehow, over the weekend, I managed to get on the wrong side of two close friends. Both times it happened so suddenly that I didn’t know until at least a day later that there was something up, and in at least one case I’m not entirely sure how it happened at all. I’ve written to both of them trying to smooth it over… and neither has bothered to ( Read more... )

The great thing about going out with friends you've known since elementary school is that there's never any tension. And silliness is almost expected. So Jocelyn and I singing our lungs out at the Mamma Mia sing along movie isn't totally crazy.

Is it?

I couldn't care less if it was. We had a great time taking off for the city at 9 pm to do ( Read more... )

This is for a very dear friend of mine, who just published a new book of poetry. If anyone happens to like poetry and can get a copy of Witness and Resist by Marilyn Lerch, I highly recommend they do so. Her work has been called 'passionately personal and deftly political,' and it is that, and much more. I'm trying to decide whether or not I really ( Read more... )