Lately I can't stop thinking about Fred. ( Read more... )

I just went running for 45 minutes, 30 minutes of which took place outside in the blazing 90-degree heat. I lost both of my favourite anklets while running, the two only Stephen's ever noticed me wearing. The sun was like liquid gold ( Read more... )

My widescreen monitor's current background is a panoramic photo of three Mountaineers with their backs turned toward the camera looking at something. They are in the top right corner of the screen standing on a cliff in Arches National Park. The left side of the screen is dominated by the Devil's Garden, a beautiful sandstone formation, and the sky ( Read more... )

There is a place in the world that belongs to nobody else but me ( Read more... )

Life lately has been interesting. I wake each morning to thumping and bumping from above as the roof-men execute their work. They are foul-mouthed and talkative, heavy and noisy; I cannot fathom how our house has not fallen down yet with all the abuse it is taking from above. My window is rattling as I type this ( Read more... )

*deep breath*

Life is hard.

*deep breath*

But gorgeous.

( A Beltaine epiphany: or, a resolution. )

*smiles*

Whoever got my week did not get this evening.

It was an evening full of homework. Basically, that's all I did. But there was something important about it. I was there. It was my evening ( Read more... )

What now seems like years ago, I planted three seeds at High Banks MetroPark. These were not literal, physical seeds; they were ideas. Dreams. Needs driven by things beyond my comprehension. Every single one of them sprouted... but only one of them survived ( Read more... )

I realized today with complete shock that I could actually go to Desert Magic. It was feasible. I could make it happen. That dream I'd clung to for so long and finally thrown away as unachievable for years... it was imminent. All I had to do was reach out and take it ( Read more... )

Karate, climbing, gardening, exploring, driving, cooking, hanging out with friends ( Read more... )