"...I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain grave pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escape from routine." (p. 79 ( Read more... )

You're supposed to think of things people should read, see, do, and listen to in their lifetimes. Susan said she didn't like to give too much instruction on this assignment, but - "Liz, this is not supposed to be all-inclusive ( Read more... )

I just can't describe how 1950s our house is on these summer nights ( Read more... )

Roses ( Read more... )

Jennie has this habit of asking me, on Saturdays and some Sundays, "what are you going to do today, Liz?" I know it's because if she had the free time that I have, she'd be doing something cool every weekend, or at least she thinks she would. I, though, feel that (a) since ALL my time is my own, I do fun things during the week, and sometimes on ( Read more... )

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as the northern star"
And I said, "Constantly in the darkness?
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in a bar..."Any ideas on how Joni Mitchell's song "A Case of You" could relate to these days in my life? It has appeared not once, not twice, but THREE times a lady in the past 24 hours. ( Read more... )

It struck me today that, for me, what I really need to feel that life is worth living is just a series of tiny, fabulous, reminders that there are things in the world that I love ( Read more... )

3.21.

so i think the question i mainly have for myself right now is: how can i embrace the things i love about myself without letting them take over? how can i be a deep thinker, continue to love so many things and condemn others, keep my soul ripe for understanding and doing and being and loving, keep hate for the world from my heart - without ( Read more... )

Caroline's up in her room, asleep, and Sarah's sprawled out asleep on the couch behind me. I cut up an apple, and got a Stephen King (I think they have the whole collection here in the den) and sat at the kitchen table to read - but the words came like a great wind, whirling around me, and I had to catch and pen them or lose them forever ( Read more... )

McFarland, if you see this, dinner tomorrow night at Vincenzo's. The three amigos (amigas? It doesn't sound as good). You know ( Read more... )