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Let's review. How fleeting. And so, I want to make sure that when I'm dead, they know how to make themselves chicken...

Tbone built me a playhouse (ie a potting shed, which for a grown woman is a playhouse), just like he did when I was 6 years old. I went to...

"Dying. Not dying. Either way, it tires you out." - Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge I'm like this book. It's abo...

I am always up this time of the night still. The witching hour. Currently plotting a strawberry patch while mulling ... I should write more ...

there so, I think this year I'm going to try really hard to build my cv and get extra work, so then I can move.  there.  I mean, why ...

Ya know that feeling when your clothes don't fit anymore? Like you've shifted? I've given 5 full wardrobes (albeit sadly skimpy)...

 I want to lose these girly swells not because I mind the way it looks but because I don't want to be soft in the middle as if I'm ...

The bower is now a healing pond, and the "paths" are now a wall.  Properly dug paths are to follow, ones that won't shift un...

"I got an abortion and learned how to make dehydrated tuna flakes...I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me...

The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real.  Another way al...

I've been fighting TJ on watching this film...but he was right.  My inner child looks like a middle aged man in a thrift store shirt who...

" What is the fastest growing hideyourawfulneighbors thing a person can plant along a fenceline, I wonder, preferably messy....hmmmm......

Yesterday my neighbor chopped by big silver maple almost in half.  I'd post a pic, but I left the house and haven't been back in the...

after attempting to spend myself down by digging up half my back yard down 3-4 ft ("I just can't kill your libido, no matter what...

speaking of character or lack thereof, The Girl is (maybe) hooking us up with respite foster care, for which we'd take a 10-week class a...

let's just say that having my entire liberal arts department over for an end-of-the-year bbq party was an extremely bad idea . that wa...

..but then again maybe people just generally royally SUCK..

and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way d...

the civil wars - barton hollow (love this) Reignwolf – The Chain laura cortese - I feel it all (feist) johnny cash - ain't no grave...

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” - Sylvia Plath

Phosphorescent – Ride On / Right On  first shirtsleeve riding around in the car with the window down song of the season

For Virgo this week: It's Soul-Searching Season: a good time to go in search of your soul. To aid your quest, I'll offer a few lines...

I don’t get birthday fuss for adults.   I more than don’t get it, it strikes me as patently weird.   It’s not just the aging factor (Why...

welp off we go to Chicago for the memorial in a 36-hour turn around drive. the winter of 2012/13 will have been "the year of going back...

How’s it going? Well (sigh) it’s all done all arranged even though poor Shirl she it’s been so much on her she called and got the other...

rereading Virginia Woolf, I'm always rereading Woolf, making my students do this, you'd think I was giving them an anal probe for a...

"When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigat...

I take him to Bikram – he calls it “concentration camp yoga”. He has to stop smoking and cannot, so that I can stop sneaking his cigarettes ...

I heard this today on NPR.  The story made me want to fucking puke.  Maybe if it hadn't had a 'happy ending', a phrase I primar...