Seamus said something to me the other day that got me thinking. He said that he never envied my money, or pretty much anything about me, except for my athleticism; the ability to just, as he put it, do things casually that most people could never do in their life. I was about to dismiss it as silly, when I thought about it a little more ( Read more... )

Diast came back! Diast came back ( Read more... )

Katie had a seizure on Sunday.

And no one told me. Not one person.

If this is what "family" means to everyone I know, I think it's time I seriously reconsider my relationships with people.

Not forgotten ( Read more... )

What do you do when you discover people you love are not the people you thought they were ( Read more... )

I've been reluctant to talk or write about this for fear of jinxing it and inviting disaster... but people are starting to learn now, so it's official. What the hell, here goes: I asked Diast to marry me, and she said yes ( Read more... )

Death. So often I think about death ( Read more... )

Diast says she believe in balance. It does seem to exist, but I wish it didn't exist by huge extremes ( Read more... )

Things never change, I swear. When you get right down to it I still haven't been able to do anything about anything I need to do anything about ( Read more... )

I had thought that, with the return of Seamus, Cat, and Don, that perhaps the war was winding down. That our victory was somehow imminent, with them feeling free to let all go. That shows what I know. They simply seem to be taking a different tack ( Read more... )