There is no new year. The new year begins every day. The old year ends every day. Now is all we have ( Read more... )

Never have I ever wished I was hearing. Oh sure, I've wished I better understood people. I've wondered what it would be like to have such an easy understanding, banter back and forth with another person. I've often watched two people quietly exchanging words under their breath (or at least beyond my small ability to hear) and it's almost magical ( Read more... )

It's funny how built in assumptions can be. One Lump Or Two doesn't admit of the possibility that perhaps no lumps at all are desired. In fact I prefer cream only. It frequently surprises me how often people assume black or white, yes or no, on or off, love or hate, Of course the older I get the more gray everything becomes but even as a child ( Read more... )

All my life growing up, I never really thought about what a home was. I was a footloose child, easily moving in and out from one place to another. Never homesick when I stayed over at friends' houses when younger, never once looked back when I moved out of my parent's house to start college, always moving once or twice a year for the next ten ( Read more... )

Looks like the entries at LJ Idol are up for voting, so if you like, go over and vote! This one is a community only vote ( Read more... )

This week is a strange one. Apparently there are four unknown "gatekeepers" who will be voting on the entries in this round. So we won't hear anything until Monday at the latest, but there's no poll or anything up. I'm not in it anymore -- boundfate and I were eliminated in our second paired round. It's actually been nice to sit back, ignore ( Read more... )

Let's take our attention off primaries and caucuses for the moment...what could be more fun than voting, instead, on LJ Idol! True, it's electronic voting, but I promise you the votes are clean and untampered with! And we have lots of lovely, interesting, articulate contestants! Such a change of pace! And two topics to discuss: the funniest ( Read more... )

When you have a kid sister four years younger than you, the last thing you want, as a mature and lofty eight year old, is for said sister to follow you around trying to join in all your activities ( Read more... )

And you know what that means! It's LJ Idol voting time!

This week comes with a twist... We've partnered up into teams and so in this round, the team with the lowest combined scores leaves. It's a community only vote, so you need to be a member of LJ Idol to vote.

I've partnered up with boundfate who I think writes strong, kickass, and best of all, ( Read more... )

When my nephew was four years old, he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). We'd had a family gathering the weekend before his diagnosis and I remember telling both my mother and sister that he looked awfully pale, and my sister said that she'd take him in to check for anemia. Instead my mother contacted me later that week with ( Read more... )