Last night I finished off a box of my usual store-brand frosted shreded wheat cereal, and we needed other foodstuffs in the house, so I went to a grocer in the course of my errands today ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 9, 2012One out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling -- that we have misread our soul's code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you're among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to ( Read more... )

Our former web connectivity host company took down Mum's website over the weekend. I'm mulling over having one made in her memory somewhere. I'll want to talk it over with brother and sister first, tho ( Read more... )

And my apologies to all my readers who haven't seen much of me lately.

This blog, and likely the ones after it, will only be personal by degrees. I'm still dealing with the aftereffects of the death of my mother back in April; life with Dad is kind of strange. It's hard to tell when Brave ends and Numb begins. Neither of us is self-medicating, ( Read more... )

You may want to skip this entry if you have an aversion to TMI ( Read more... )

While I was asleep this morning, one of our family friends, Jessica, was here picking up a dozen eggs that Dad had gotten her from a nearby farm as per their usual arrangements. After she left and I fell asleep again, I dreamt that Mum was there in the living room with Jessica and Dad, getting them caught up on the goings in the hereafter ( Read more... )

I know I've been much quieter than normal lately. I guess I'm under a more covert, sublime form of depression as opposed to the usual demoralization. At this point, I'm of a mind that just letting it run its course, and not fighting it with self-medication, is the best of my few and far-between options ( Read more... )

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I still dream of my mother just about every night. I guess she still weighs heavily on my subconscious mind ( Read more... )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 17, 2012In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It's not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, ( Read more... )