It's always March when life seems to crumble around you and your doubts and fears rear their ugly heads. It's the inbetween month. It's when the depressing weather of winter won't seem to go away and spring teases you on a regular basis. It's when we grow older and haggered and tired ( Read more... )

Catherine reminded me of that Bob Dylan song. You Ain’t Goin Nowhere. Marm and dad used to sing that one all the time. Got me thinking about how much I miss my childhood. The simplicity of it all. Reading allowed on the ugly tan leather couch in the study. Guitar sing-a-longs where Leaving On A Jet Plane was a must. Playing Monopoly at the dinner ( Read more... )

Having been without much interactive communication with my parents for the past few years- communication based mostly in emails and short msn conversations- everyonce in a while I crave their acceptance and approval in a way that I never thought possible. I'm fairly terrible with correspondence and parental updates etc etc but Marm is the update ( Read more... )

More often than not Catherine knows the exact right thing to say. She commiserates, she justifies, she encourages and she rationalizes. This past Friday I was supposed to meet a friend’s brother to deliver a key. The guy was a complete idiot. Didn’t know the address, didn’t know how to use a computer to get a map to find the address once I gave it ( Read more... )

You think you know what’s going on around you. You think you know a person, you think you understand them and the way they feel. You think you can help and you can be there for them and that they can depend on you. You never expect life to blow up in your face. It’s entirely true that when it rains it pours. It’s also entirely true that you can ( Read more... )

Marm and dad don't get the boat. In a few words... they just got screwed over by the builder, and maybe their plans were a bit hasty. Either way- there is most likely no more boat. It's been bothering me so much for the past few days and I couldn't seem to pin down what about it was really getting to me. Part of it is that I love my parents and ( Read more... )

My mum gave me some really good advice today. You'd think that it would seem simple and evident and easy to follow- but for someone with high expecations of the world, who used to have this completely utopian view of the world, who used to be entirely optimistic about people and humanity and life in general- the advice seems arduous and impossible ( Read more... )