So I’m a little late getting on the Random Friday train here today.  But I still have a good 45 minutes of the day left, and so here it is, my random set.  Allow me to reiterate the very simple rules once again.  Set the old pod a’shufflin’ and report back the first ten songs […]

For the first time in a long time, I am actively loving what I am doing in my life.  It is such a refreshing change to be able to tell people that I am actively happy when they ask me how I am.  That I am deeply content with the ways in which I spend […]

In my life I’ve only ever walked out of one movie, Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven. I was 13 years old and went to see it with my grandma Bunny and my mom. My mom had driven south from Portland to LA to pick me up from summer camp and we were staying with Bunny […]

I just got an email from a friend who followed the link to my sister’s song on Neil Young’s website that I posted last week.  It seems that a whole lot of people went to check out her song, because she jumped from position #555 up to an unbelievable #20.  Thanks to everyone who went […]

Saturday afternoon Seth picked me up behind my building. Once I was seated and belted in, he turned to me and said, “Okay, so where we going?” I told him Linvilla Orchards and pointed him in the direction of 95 South. Less than half an hour later, we pulled into a row […]

Today was my Aunt Anne’s 87th birthday. I drove out to New Town Square with a bakery box that contained two cupcakes (one chocolate, one vanilla) and my camera in my bag. I called her before I headed out, because the day before when we had talked she had said to me, “make […]

Set your iPod a’shufflin’ and report back the first ten songs that float to the surface.  No skipping, omitting or excusing allowed, stand tall with your music. 
1. A Long Day, The Polyphonic Spree (The Beginning Stages)
2. Let’s Just Get Naked, Joan Osborne (Relish)
3. Carnival Lights, Patty Smyth (Greatest Hits)
4. West Point, Jonatha Brooke & The […]

One of my favorite things about not having a job is being home for lunch. Yesterday I made braised swiss chard and quinoa. Today I made a huge bowl salad with Boston lettuce, feta, turkey bacon, avocado, tomato and red onion. It was really good.
I met up with some friends during the […]

Driving home from class tonight, just about a minute off City Line Ave., I almost hit a deer in the road.  I take a back way that abutts Fairmount Park and links up to West River Drive, but I’ve never seen any wild life up that way until tonight.  I was going along, talking to […]

Friday night I slept on a camping mat in the corner of a room that smelled like tempura paint, while drunken Iowa football fans caroused under my window.  Saturday night I found myself under a Pokemon covered head board, having displaced a five year old who spent the night on the floor of his brother’s […]