For those of you out there who typically click through to read the comments that other people have left on my posts, you will have noticed that yesterday, my mom left a comment. She did so in order to ask me to please stay in one more day and to take care of myself.
My [...]
Heading into this week, I had every day booked. I had lunch dates with friends and had filled the evenings with meetings and movies. Getting sick meant that all of that had to go, and it’s been amazing to me how easily the decks got cleared. Friends were understanding and meetings went [...]
I am alive, but just barely. Other than a few brief trips to the kitchen and bathroom, I spent the day in bed. My cousin Angie called me from the front door late this afternoon, when I didn’t hear the bell ring, to say that she had left a container of soup. By the time [...]
I’ve always believed that when you see patterns develop in your life, that there’s something to be learned from those patterns. One pattern that has appeared in my life over and over again is that when I get a break from school or work, I get sick. As soon as my life slows down, my [...]
The Instructions: Set your pod a’shufflin’ and report back the first ten songs. No skipping, omitting or hedging allowed.
1. To Lay Me Down, Cowboy Junkies (Rarities, B-sides and Slow, Sad Waltzes)
2. Lord Have Mercy on my Soul, Black Oak Arkansas (Even More Dazed and Confused)
3. Chestnut Mare, The Byrds (The Essential Byrds)
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The next episode of Fork You is up and running. In it I reach back to my parents’ hippie roots and blend up a big old batch of nutty, fruity granola. Scott spent most of his time behind the camera this time, so it’s a whole lot of me talking and mixing. [...]
I can’t seem to keep a rosemary plant alive in my apartment, although for some reason the little bay tree I got about a year ago is doing fine.
My sister got pulled over by the cops someplace in Oklahoma a couple of days ago, because she was driving 55 miles an hour to conserve gas. [...]
