Cold and overcast. There should be a little snow today. Currently, it's 29˚F, with the windchill at 22˚F ( Read more... )

So, José's influence is finally fucking gone from our weather. The sun is back. Currently, it's mostly sunny and 73˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny and warm today, the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice 2017, an inherently pagan observance with a date from a Christian calendar. This is my best day, always, the longest day of the year. The day that is least mine, that's the winter soltice, the shortest day of the year. Currently, it's 81˚F here in Providence. Midsummer and the first ( Read more... )

I've upped my Klonopin dose, and I'm sleeping again, which is an enormous relief. It makes mornings less a thing of terror and anxiety. Even when the sky is that shade of hungry blue and it's only 35˚F, with the windchill at 29˚F ( Read more... )

Happy Winter Solstice. Now, we tilt back towards summer. Back towards the sun and life, away from the dark and cold ( Read more... )

We woke to a dusting of snow. I didn't sleep well or much, but in all the times I was up in the night and after sunrise, I never noticed it was snowing. I'm an inattentive insomniac. About 9:30 a.m., I gave up, tired of tossing and turning while my feet throbbed and burned. I got up and watched a rafter of turkeys picking at the snowy ground. I'm ( Read more... )

I'd sincerely love to make it through a normal day - which means a day when I spend a lot of time online - without being subjected to - nay, pummeled with - baby talk and idiotic acronyms. It's everywhere I go. LiveJournal, Facebook, the people I role-play with, even email from people I work with/for. LOL, ROFL, butthurt, totes, adorbs, all the ( Read more... )

1. In the South, in Alabama and Georgia, this day was always genuinely a point where I could breathe a sigh of relief. Usually, by December 21st the worst of the cold and gloom was over. I knew that by the end of February there would be signs of spring, and that by April, almost always, the world would be warm and green. But here, instead, December ( Read more... )

Just wanted to post three photos from our evening at Moonstone Beach on Friday (to help counteract, perhaps, the profound glumness of the first post today). They're behind the cut:

( Piping Plover and Cairn )

We had a rather fantastic day out yesterday, and I want to write about it, but, instead, I am determined to forge ahead with my "Shit I Liked And/Or That Mattered" account of last weekend in New Orleans before it slips away. This time last week, I was in the Queen Anne Parlour...wait, I'll get to that. But yes, a very nice Solstice, and we are past ( Read more... )