As the Pacific time zone friend, I am now extending my wishes for a prosperous new year to you all ( Read more... )

Ever since those damn "Home Alone" movies came out, I've always toyed with the notion of being all alone on Christmas ( Read more... )

This year's Thanksgiving, as most go in my family, was completely devoid of politics ( Read more... )

Every time I read from my Grandma Susan's copy of "The Sursum Corda," I'm overcome by the first prayer, "Morning Prayer."

There's so much earnesty in the Lakota translation. So much humility, too much, I think. The English Morning Prayer reads a little something like:

Priest: God forgive us all our sinful, nasty, perverted, degenerate ways.All: ( Read more... )

I've struggled to write an entry that isn't somehow self-centered or common or Nihilistic or self-deprecating or boring. But I find that my life these days is self-centered, common, Nihilistic, self-deprecating and boring ( Read more... )

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Whenever I start getting down about life, I have a sort-of ace-in-the-hole to get my spirits back up ( Read more... )

I have an apartment.

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From the Gmail inbox:

"Dear Alfie ( Read more... )

Only 12 shopping days left until my Silver Birthday!

While you're all scurrying, I'll be making napkins with silver stitching.

God, a quarter-century old, "jubilee."
However, my life has been less than jubilant these past few years. It wouldn't have hit me so hard if I'd realized around this time last year [my Golden Birthday], that I would be in ( Read more... )