I have multiple places where I am an online presence, sometimes under different names and for different purposes ( Read more... )

Come home, daughter.

The city that whispers its claim was never my home.  Or perhaps I should say, it hasn't been my home yet.I find excuses, make excuses, to come back - if not to the city itself, to something somewhere close by.  I've been doing it for years ( Read more... )

The cliche has it that anyone who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart, while anyone who is not a conservative at age 40 has no head ( Read more... )

I wasn’t much of a sports fan during or just after college.  In fact, I had cultivated the geeky bookworm's well-practiced disdain for any and all team sports, though I would watch figure skating in the winter and follow swimming and track and field events (and sometimes gymnastics) during Summer Olympics years.  The most I could muster was token ( Read more... )

Thing you may not know about me: I startle easily. Ridiculously easily ( Read more... )

I have this one friend, just one, that I always have active on Messenger. We aren't always awake or available at the same time, but we always know we'll talk more about anything and everything. So with this one person, conversations don't start with "Hi, how are you?" or anything like that - the subject is jumped right into ( Read more... )

holiday love meme 2016
my thread here

[Content Warning]
[Content warning: Domestic violence, bullying, pro sports-related violence, post-concussion syndrome that is likely to be eventually fatal, suicide mention.]


Lori's firstborn has been a fighter since he fought his way out of her body.

She knows Mike doesn't get it from her.  Maybe he gets it from his own father, who has a violent temper, who ( Read more... )

I am doing LJ Idol Season 10, and so can you!

Oops.

Been bad about posting.

Life is pretty good right now - ravenshrinkery and I are both settling into our new jobs, and we're adjusting to the facts that his is on the night shift and mine is salaried and non-overtime-eligible, though that hasn't been much of an issue YET ( Read more... )