This season of ljidol was different for me. Whereas the two previous seasons, to be honest, I thought I was pretty awesome. And certainly believe that if there had been no voting shenanigans I could have won season 4. But then again if I had won I wouldn't have been allowed to play again. Because that's the rules. But this season was different. I ( Read more... )

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Being a mom means always being sick, or taking care of someone who is sick. It means forgetting to eat, forgetting to pee, and forgetting laundry in the drier for three days. It means a jungle of toys across the living room floor, and stepping on tiny explorers hiding in the doorway ( Read more... )

Last night I sat on the couch with my husband, scottchurch, we turned the computers off and watched Lost and Breaking Bad, and I was happy. I picked up a blanket and our cat, T, and sat there rubbing T's head. And I watched as he leaned his head way back, closed his eyes and fell asleep in my arms. And I thought to myself, this is why I haven't been writing. ( Read more... )

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I remember it clearly.

Packing up his stuff, after he left me, finding a bunch of those tiny bottles of booze in the basement. Left over from some party I think. He told me once they're called Nips but I don't know if that's true, I never heard anyone else call them that.

I could really use something to take the ( Read more... )

It was the most beautiful thing I ever saw. The water was alive, electricity running through it as the soft waves hit the shore and light sparked from underneath. Like lighting in the water ( Read more... )

I guess no one can tell you what will help you feel safe and secure in this world, no one can give you a magic item to help you fall asleep at night. You have to find it for yourself ( Read more... )

MOMMY ( Read more... )

I can't dance ( Read more... )

I never knew what kind of mother I would be, what would be important to me, what I would need to shout from the rooftops and what I would be content to keep to myself ( Read more... )