What is love? I think that is one of the hardest words to define. Love. We all know it, but it's not, for example, like agree, where you can say "to agree is to come to a mutual understanding." When we try to explain love we pick something simple like how we care for our mothers, or fathers, or that wee little teddy we've always had. You'll ( Read more... )

There is something magical about a little one at Christmas. Dommie, Hayden and I have spent most of the month together in Ireland celebrating it. It's been a lot of fun because Ireland already has this magical air about it, and when you add Christmas to it... it's just incredible. Dommie's old enough this year to really appreciate it too, and ( Read more... )

I've been trying to write this for a couple days now. About a wonderful, wonderful weekend in which I was utterly spoiled, and made to feel so incredibly loved. I wanted to write how we met up in Florida on a trip that was originally meant to be business but ended up all pleasure. I wanted to write about him taking me to the Floridian, or ( Read more... )

Humans are such creatures of habit. I've been taking notice of the orders and rituals people follow. Even my son, at nearly three years old, has a ritual to waking up. His eyes flick open right away when I call his name or touch his shoulder, though only long enough to look up at my face and then they're falling shut again. It amazes me a ( Read more... )

I suppose it's my turn then, yeah? Only I don't really have any words. "How wonderful!", "How terrific!", "This is amazing!" There's a whole plethora I might use, but I won't. Don't misunderstand; I'm so beyond happy that we won. I think we really deserved it, and I think it's a great sort of tribute to all of us, but it means most to me on a ( Read more... )

I feel fortunate. It's been a growing sensation these last months. I'd like to say I deserve all this-- actually, I will: I absolutely deserve this after so long; but even still there's that intense feeling of fortune. Luck. Gratitude. I want to ask what it is exactly that I've done to warrant this, you, but I know. Years of wanting and never ( Read more... )

I've been back in Hawaii for about two weeks now. I started an entry soon after getting here about how much I didn't want to be back, how much I didn't want to do the scenes I have coming up, but now that I've settled back into the routine I'm enjoying it again. I never finished the entry, obviously. I'm glad I didn't. I was being horribly ( Read more... )

( One more time. )

( I'm just a lemming. )

This morning I woke up with a taste so vile in my mouth I wondered for a moment if something hadn't crawled in it and died during the night. Then I remembered all the coffee I'd had last night and quickly reached for the phone to order tea. TEA! I told them to bring me potfuls of it. Like cooking potfuls. At least I hope I said pots, though ( Read more... )