The word for today's weather is "muggy." It is, like yesterday, a muggy day in Providence, Currently, it's cloudy and 82˚F ( Read more... )

Sunny today, though we're supposed to lose the sun soon. It's 67˚F, which is at least an improvement upon yesterday. Another good night's sleep last night, at least eight hours ( 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... )

Hold on. I'm trying to remember what happened day before yesterday. No, I'm not kidding. Hold on.

Ah, okay. Good damn thing I have Spooky, who may as well be my failing memory's external hard drive. But first, this:

It's not so much negativity as it is things you can't understand. I only have my own experiences that I know for sure what happened ( Read more... )

Sunny and cold today. It's 47˚F, but the wind chill is at 41˚F. We could have snow showers tonight.

Yesterday I did precisely 1,000 words on the third chapter of Cherry BombHere on this day, marked as it is as an observance, I have this thought: America has now reached a point where there are thirteen-year-old children who have not ever known ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first day of The Vacation. Today, I hit the pause button. Tomorrow, I guess The Vacation will resume.

There's so much I've meant to put down here that I haven't. Such frenetic, fretful days. I've disliked them.

Spooky and I began reading Cloud Atlas last week, and it's wonderful. The film certainly did it service. The last time ( Read more... )

There is a thing I want to write about. Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow, I will write about the thing I want to write about today.

Today, I need to try to get "back on the horse."

Today, I woke up angry, so the thing I want to talk about ought wait until tomorrow, so that I can approach it with a more level head ( Read more... )