Monthly Archives: December 2007

(un)happy ending to some stories

The damage is done. The extent is considerable.

oh Christmas

I hope in the new year I’ll be back to updating this more frequently. It isn’t like we’ve had a shortage of goings on. We’ve been very busy– parties, visits, visits from others, cookie making with my friend L (we’ve been friends pretty much for over 20 years, yow–the cookie making had an excellent 80s soundtrack too)movies even (hey, we… (more…)

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep

~Ralph Waldo Emerson Lord what a day. The Family care committee put the food boxen together today. 11 families 2 big boxen of cans and dry foods and one giant bag of frozen foods of various types each. And each family got gifts for all their kids. It was cool. The point was to make two weeks worth of groceries… (more…)

Speak your mind

I am realizing slowly that it is very important to speak my mind. I’ve been way to nice for too long and that allows people to get away with too much, much too much. So my goal for the coming year–telling it like it is, standing up for myself in all my relationships. ALL of them. I’ll find the way… (more…)

“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

~Byron I think I’m about to hit the library again and pick up some Romantics. It’s time to revisit them and other Victorian writing. I disliked many of the Victorians in graduate school, which was rather heretical. I spent my time either with Chaucer or Shakespeare or in later ages with Italo Calvino, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O’connor etc etc. I… (more…)

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