While it took until the next to last day at the beach as part of Evan's-family-vacation to realize that much of my continued feelings of awkward/trapped/frustration had to do with prior events not associated with this trip (but there were plenty of similar enough things that triggered the memories), much of the time there was pleasant enough. One ( Read more... )

( the downer )

I don't need to file. I'm under the minimum income amount for the year. There is one slightly grey area to it that I'm not going to go into, but I'm just going to let it go and not file. I do wish I could get back the $81, but Oregon really would include my Virginia income, which is crazy, so I'm not even going to go there ( Read more... )

Today I was behind a truck with a few bumper stickers that caught my eye: one is an old fave, "Not All Who Wander Are Lost." Next to it was "Don't Act Stupid- We Have World Leaders For That ( Read more... )