The Crazy Lenten Diet is not the only thing I do during Lent. It's just the most famous thing. I have several other Lent-related activities, one of which is going through my email. This is another thing I've done for a number of years, but this year I've made quite a bit of progress, likely in part to hardly sending emails any longer. Consider ( Read more... )

When a person begins a journal such as this one, she doesn't think about who might come along and read it. I mean, sure, it's awesome to have random people stop by and think it's cool enough to follow, even when you know it's not cool at all; it's just a way to have a daily excuse to write. She doesn't think about the people from her past who ( Read more... )

So there I was...I'd just gotten off the phone with a friend I haven't talked to in ages, and I was writing a reply to my previous journal entry, when all of a sudden black. Everything went dead. Lovely. Just what I wanted for Christmas: a power outage. Thanks, Com Ed! It was off for a couple minutes, then flickered briefly...and then it was ( Read more... )

I was on the computer this morning when I heard my bird chirp. This is nothing new; Kirby will chirp at anything and anyone, especially if he hears a noise. What was unusual was the sound of it--not faraway, as it would be if he were in my bedroom on the opposite side of the house; and not nearby, as if he were on the railing in our two-story ( Read more... )

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