it's pretty hard to believe that nearly three months have gone by since i packed up all of my things and began a new life in chicago. i remember so clearly those last nights sleeping in the same bed, that evening in early may when i came home with lease papers signed and it was evident that this really was happening ( Read more... )

i feel as though i should be recording so many things i'm thinking, feeling and experiencing...yet i feel challenged in that it doesn't seem like anything i haven't, in some way, experienced before. just a new set of circumstances. the backdrop on which it all is happening is what i find most striking, i think ( Read more... )

The past few weeks have been a blur of work and travel, but as this week comes to an end I am finding myself ever the more fixated on next week's events. The feelings that, by my standards, I have done so well at keeping to myself or at least not showing to him are starting to surface. And while I recognize that I am likely to be an emotional wreck ( Read more... )

last summer was the worst for us. we hardly spoke, we rarely showed any physical affection, and spent next to no free time together. we dodged each other on weekends, and evenings were most often spent in silence (or at best, were enjoyed with the sounds of television or music ( Read more... )

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my meetings in detroit ran late and i missed my flight, forcing me to take a later flight that, after being delayed, became a much later flight ( Read more... )

christmas this year ( Read more... )

two years of december 1 storms. impressive job by mother nature ( Read more... )

over the past year we've made a conscious effort to decrease our waste and pollution. we now recycle as much as possible, to the extent that our recycling outweighs our trash (i'd guess by at least twice as much each week). we also switched roughly 95% of our lights to compact fluorescent bulbs, despite all the naysayers who are concerned about the ( Read more... )

this has been one of the roughest weeks ever. as a result, we've grown much strongeer, together ( Read more... )