... when you walk out the door, see the other side of the street empty for street sweeping and your heart sinks because you think you parked not-your-car there and now it's gone, but you have to get to something else so you don't have time to stop and think about it. And then on the way to that something else you lose your keys, so you go walking ( Read more... )

From mom's house. Portrait by Bev Zuk


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I almost never remember having dreams, let alone what they are, so this one was multiply odd - odder still that I remember it 9 hours later ( Read more... )

Much of the time these days, I feel almost desperately lonely minutes after the last person in my physical vicinity leaves.

An even more disturbing thing, I think, is that I often feel pretty darned lonely when I'm surrounded by people. Not always, not all people, but...

I need to fix this. I have no idea how.

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> I’m late because I have a weird aversion to changing circumstances ( Read more... )

I'll be flying to Seattle on Friday, Jan 23, and out (to Wenatchee (iata:EAT) (and then on to Quincy)) on Sunday, around 4pm. I'm staying at the Ace Hotel and haven't yet decided to rent a car ( Read more... )

Remember when I said "(I received a Kindle for the holidays, as I bought the $10 Song Of Ice And Fire special that Amazon had a month or 2 ago. That might either really speed me up or slow me down… Ok, it'll certainly lower my velocity in terms of completed books for a while... but compared to last year? Will I even notice ( Read more... )

The list this year is shorter than last year by a couple, but almost the same ( Read more... )

Last year was 63, plus uncounted graphic novels ( Read more... )

Where I slept last year ( Read more... )