My tale is short, my entry longer. With every moment, I have been attempting to discover what I'm supposed to write about "bupkis," but everything I came up with was either silly or too convoluted, or even too morbid and I'm not up for being dark right now. Short little wisps of ideas would come to me- "Like a Brautigan poem-" I thought over lunch ( Read more... )

Hello ( Read more... )

I sit in a corner of the long abandoned chicken house, still as a statue. The sight of me must be strange; I wear my mother's heavy jacket over my jeans and light sweater and my five year-old hands are cartoon-ish in my stepfather's thick work gloves ( Read more... )

Normally, the end of my run was slow, not so much because I was tired, because I wasn't, but because cooling down seemed like the prudent thing to do. Normally, I didn't run at night, either, but I'd been busy, I was upset, and I knew a run would help me work through the things that were cluttering my mind. The only "normal" thing happening was the ( Read more... )

I've spent my life trying to navigate a world full of people I don't fully understand, using the rules of engagement I was given but that seem to have been out of date at least a decade before I received them and were also not standard issue ( Read more... )

Now that I've made my pledge, I humbly offer the link to the first week's voting poll:

I am in Tribe 5, near the bottom. There's a link to my entry for the week next to my name.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your voting consideration.

<3

For remaining true to myself during the course of LJ Idol, I pledge the following ( Read more... )

There's a joke about a devout man, a farmer, during a terrible flood. Three separate people offer him a ride away from the rising waters, but he holds out because he believes the Lord will provide.Several times in the last seven years, I have had thoughts of harming myself, of killing myself. Some of the anti-depressants I was prescribed made these ( Read more... )

I am throwing it into the LJ Idol arena. I'm anxious beyond belief about it, but I need to get writing again and this was a great way to get things going in my mind last time I participated ( Read more... )