It’s Friday, which means that I spend some time sending my iPod into shuffle mode to see what comes out. I then post the first ten songs here, no exceptions, no deletions, no excuses. Let’s see what the pod spits out today…
1. Blue, Lucinda Willians (Essence)
2. Mary, Sarah McLachlan (Fumbling Towards Ecstacy)
3. Ted’s [...]

Tonight, on the phone with my mom, we started talking about my sister. My mother had just commented about the fact that Raina is kind of dirty (dirt from the yard, crumbs in the car, used Q-tips in the bathroom dirty. What were you thinking I meant?). My mom continued with, “it [...]

Saturday night, I dreamt I met a man who was a French chef (he was actually a chef, from France, not just a chef of French food. Why I remember this distinction from the dream, I can not say). He was writing a cookbook and introduced me to his editor while we were [...]

As I walked across campus today to pick up the mail, I called my mom to tell her how the mishap from yesterday resolved itself this morning around 11:30 am. There had been a moment, when I was sitting at my desk, my head in my hands, because it felt like there was nothing [...]

I left work today feeling really cruddy. Something I had been responsible for at work did not go well. It isn’t exactly my fault, more a product of my ignorance about how certain processes work, I’m feeling crappy about it. I left my desk today feeling like I was a royal screw [...]

I just went online to take a look at my blog (as I’m wont to do) and it isn’t there. I’m not exactly sure what’s going on, and I’m more than a little concerned. I’m posting this, to see if it won’t help me find my blog.

Friday night I got home from work tired, in a bit of a funk, and not really looking forward to the amount of out of the apartment time that I had scheduled for myself over the weekend. But there was absolutely no way to bow out of the weekend’s activities, because they were all [...]

I forgot to post a Random Friday set last week, because it was the holiday weekend, and so Friday didn’t feel like Friday. But I’m back in my regularly scheduled groove, and so here there are, my random ten for the week.
1. Higher Ground , Iris Dement (Infamous Angel)
2. Heartache for Everyone, Indigo Girls [...]

Today is the birthday of the remarkable girl behind the blog, Strolling Luna. She is a lover all things sweet, is always willing to bake yummy items to sneak into blogger meetups and can wax poetic about both cheesecake and brussel sprouts. She enthusiastically dresses up for Halloween. She claims not to [...]

Sometimes I have to believe that the woman who stops me on the street and asks for $.85 or a bus token is really going to use the dollar I just gave her to get home. I can’t always refuse, to turn down what seem to be heartfelt requests for help. I like [...]