There’s a lot going on in my life lately, but nothing that is easily distilled down into a touching or remarkable blog entry. I’m actually feeling kind of parched right now, without the ability to fertilize an idea into bloom. I’ve spend the last three plus months writing more than I’ve ever done before and [...]
It’s close to midnight and work for my class tomorrow night calls frantically. If it weren’t for my NaBloPoMo commitment, chances are good that I wouldn’t be posting. But I like finish what I start, and so I’m here, diligently posting away. I hope you don’t mind an eclectic assortment.
I ran today. [...]
Monday afternoon I stood at my dining room table, flipping through a splayed out copy of the New York Times, when an obituary caught my eye and made me lean in to better read it. It reported that a ninety-eight year old woman named Ernestine Gilbreth Carey had died. My heart squeezed in [...]
So, until now, I’ve been completely delinquent in mentioning that I’m participating in NaBloPoMo this month. An alternative to NaNoWriMo, it is a commitment to update your blog with a post of some substance once a day for the month of November. The project is one of the many brainchildren of Eden [...]
There is a bottle of Advil in my medicine cabinet that my last roommate left behind. I would never have bought it for myself. I feel like name brand painkillers are a gross indulgence when a larger sized bottle of the store brand can be bought for nearly half the price. And [...]
My favorite six-month-old in the world took a half hour nap on my chest yesterday afternoon while I drank tea with her mom and another friend.
18 people had dinner in my apartment last night.
This afternoon a vendor at the Italian Market refuse one of my dollar bills, because it had a corner ripped off. I [...]
In some ways, I am like one of the little Jewish grandmothers who cluster in the lobby of my apartment building between the hours of 10:30 am and 2:45 pm, chatting with each other while their walkers are parked a respectable 2 feet away. I squirrel away the green rubber bands that Whole Foods [...]
Today I got an email from myself that I wrote a year ago. I had totally forgotten that I had written a note and left it at futureme.org, for future delivery. But it was a treat to receive it, and an interesting experience to learn that I am not where I expected to be last [...]
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’m going to Iowa this weekend.
When I tell people that’s where I’m going Friday morning, they pause and then respond, “Iowa? What’s in Iowa?” The Prairie Star District is in Iowa (as well as in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas) and they have some Unitarian Young Adults who are looking [...]
