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LJ Idol - Week 18: Jetsam
If you were offered a choice between all the riches of the world or love, which would you choose?That’s my company’s slogan. Catchy, isn’t it? It’s a bit misleading, since we don’t actually guarantee that you’ll get “all the riches of the world” if you give up love. But it’s enough to catch your eye, to get you thinking ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 17 - Open Topic
I’ve always dreamt about the stars ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week Sixteen - Open Topic
The wind swirled through the open door, biting against the warmth of the diner. Those closest to the door shivered and glared at the old man as he stood at the threshold for a long moment. He stepped through, just enough so that door swung shut behind him, the bell jangling against the glass.
Steam from endless cups of coffee and bowls of hot soup ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week Fifteen - Nimbus
“Where are we going? I haven’t seen a single restaurant in over twenty miles ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 14 - Cracks
“Thanks for the dinner, Grammy. It was delicious!” I waved as I walked out the front door. Pappy followed me outside to the porch ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 13 - Inside Baseball
Have you ever really thought about baseball? Not the game itself, but just that single, small, white ball?
They’re such hard things on the outside. Throw one at someone hard enough and it will hurt them. Hit one with a bat and it will fly through the air. These little white orbs are chased around by grown men, who are cheered on by thousands and ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week Twelve: The Sincerest Form of Flattery
“Hey, you know who you look like?”
Those words always make me very uncomfortable because I really don’t know what’s coming next. I’ve heard:
“You look like that girl who played Laura Ingalls on Little House!” I heard that when I was seven and it made me absolutely giddy.
“You look just like … who was it? Oh yeah! Kathy Bates!” That came when I ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week Eleven - Haute
Haute, I’m not. Never have been, never will be.
This is one aspect of the frugality my mother and grandmother taught me that has actually stuck. It’s so very hard to for me to pay a lot of money for something. Why pay hundreds of dollars for clothes? You’ll end up either never wearing them, or being too afraid to do anything in them while wearing ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week Ten - Icarus
Watching her fly used to be such an innocent thing. I remember when she would gleefully follow me into some mischief or another. We’d gang up on our younger brother in the pool, or watch MTV in the summer, dancing around in the living room or making weird choreography to go with the music. She would laugh and smile and dance with her arms ( Read more... )
