I haven't written in more than a month, and this isn't the easiest topic. What does a good life look like in a time when there's little access to meaningful work and family relationships are flexible ( Read more... )

1. What can you see from where you're sitting ( Read more... )

Wow, an old-fashioned meme, apparently from somewhere called VillageCharm, via microbieName ( Read more... )

That's actually kind of a cool question. Let me think ( Read more... )

No, I am not posting a picture. I am sick, I look sickly. I didn't list any huge challenges to overcome or goals to meet within the time period of this 365 day meme, so I have none to report. I'm glad to have done the whole year, though -- I am impressed at my staying power despite the incredible banality of a lot of the topics. Yes, I could ( Read more... )

No, not really. My beloved Rilke died, and I grieved a long time. Now I have a silly little kitten girl who needs to get spayed pronto. She's sweet, though I don't think she has all the personality depths and quirks that Rilke did. But it's early days. I am probably more emotionally free of M. than I have been in years. I think I am, net, ( Read more... )

It was tentative, like someone walking into an echoing, empty room and starting to talk to herself, self-conscious that someone unknown to her might be actually listening. The first few were like that, actually. I think it was November, 2003. Wow. I have just been rereading the first several entries. Nine years on, I do not know most of the ( Read more... )

... I don't know. I tell social lies. Big lies? Given that the meme-originator is in high school (or was)... were there any Big Lies back then, for me? I had a lot of lies of omission, where one parent assumed I was sleeping at the other's house, when I wasn't. Ah, divorce. I had a lot of ... I don't know what you would call them -- action ( Read more... )

I used to play this game with my mom, when we'd missed the 203 Ridge bus and were walking downtown, sometimes in the rain, like today. Back then, the unimaginable lottery sum was $1,000,000. Now it's more like $85,000,000 ( Read more... )

I wore grey yoga pants, a grey and white geometric print knit blouse from Old Navy with a surplice top, and a warm black shawl collar sort of cardigan with long ... I don't know what they are... wings? from the front. That being a more complicated piece of clothing, you know *I* didn't buy it.
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