There is something eerily soothing about the bus trips between DC and Cincinnati.  It's a long trip, and given Greyhound's ancient infrastructure, I'm left with a dying phone battery and a lot of time to look out a darkened countryside and think ( Read more... )

Yesterday I bought a salad on my way to my monthly meeting downtown.  As I rounded the corner at G Street NW the entire street was blocked off by police tape and about 40 police cars.  People were huddling around somewhere around 8th street in their business suits.  I figured it was some kind of Presidential pit stop (the kind of thing we see ( Read more... )

Sunday we had the first monthly Pagan book club at the Open Hearth Foundation.  Because this was the first and we didn't have a lot of promotional time to get the word out immediately it was a round-robin book talk.  So we each brought a bunch of books that we had read, or were in the process of reading, and we talked about their premises, their ( Read more... )

The other week I almost wrote a post about the Delphic Maxims. And then I decided that instead I wanted to focus on the most prominent, and most remembered phrase from Delphi "Know Thyself" (γνῶθι σεαυτόν). And then I stopped myself again, because what I was about to write was incredibly self-satisfying and kind of a jab at people who don't examine ( Read more... )

I've been debating for weeks, maybe months, about whether or not to give up on LiveJournal as a platform for my writing.  There are dozens of pros and cons to this debate and I still haven't made up my mind.  I mean, it can take me hours to decide on a movie to watch streaming on Netflix (as I literally look through ALL of them).  There are days ( Read more... )

I think yesterday I finally realized what was going on with me emotionally.  It used to be that I would get cranky and pissy around midnight and that would be my body's way of saying, "hey, you've had enough now, and you should go to bed."  However, my midnight was striking at four o'clock in the afternoon.  Yesterday it was around 7:00.  Perhaps ( Read more... )

I've been depressed lately.  Anyone who knows me on an intimate level can tell something is wrong.  Usually I can't pinpoint what it is until it's too late, and I'm suffering from being a total and utter bitch to everyone.  Tonight I knew I had to get out of the house.  I've been cooping myself up for weeks, and haven't really understood what was ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to get back into the habit of writing.  It seems that the moments when writing make the most sense to me are those moments when the house is the quietest. Late in the evening, when the boys are in bed, and I'm plugging away at the computer, or on Sunday morning when they're still sleeping and my wacky bio-clock pushes me out of that ( Read more... )

Watching Glee has actually driven home a point to me that I hadn't even realized until just now.  I feel like every week I'm learning something new about myself that makes me realize details about my behavior that I hadn't analyzed.

One of the things that happened to me in high school was that I wrote a tremendous amount of poetry, and short fiction ( Read more... )

Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine, who moved back here from a long ways away.  He told me that as a friend I'm rather avoidant, and that for all of my friend making once people are out of sight they are out of mind.  I know this to be true, and it is one of my less desirable attributes.  I don't maintain long-distance friendships ( Read more... )