Found at the Walking Trail

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage–Anais Nin
Good heavens, I love that woman.

Nostalgia and Perfect Walking Partners

While today wasn’t a perfect day, it was pretty close to it. I made a new discovery of a new “favorite place,” I learned a thing or two, and I managed to get some semblance of order with the weirdness.
First of all, it stopped raining, so I decided to take Bear to the old [...]

The Day After The Weirdest Day of My Life

Joe was right. It is raining. It’s cool and the fat, slow raindrops are drumming messages on the tin roof. Perhaps not messages so much as songs, songs I know the words to. Songs I can hum along with. Songs that talk about the wonders of snuggling down in blankets, stretched out as far as [...]

Wierd Days and Writing

Today was singularly the weirdest day of my life.
Fifty years from now, assuming I still have my memory, I will look back on today, May 29, 2007, as STILL the weirdest day of my life.
And, for a mundane college student-slash-hospital grunt, I have some pretty weird days. But this sincerely tops it all. I still [...]

Something that Makes Me Happy

Today, as I was driving back from a class that apparently crossed two campuses, three classrooms, and multiple offices, I saw a turtle on the road. I couldn’t get to it, but I slowed down, holding my breath as I watched in the rear-view mirror to see if the cars coming the opposite way would [...]

Good Morning

As I sit here, one eye still glued shut and my hair pasted to the side of my head, looking like a picture out of Something About Mary (minus the nature of the gel), it strikes me how very similar a flip-top package of blush makeup and a birth control pill container are.
It’s gonna be [...]

Webs

So I washed the car today. That’s a big deal, since it happens only about once every 100 years. I had to do something with my hands (still so damn agitated–I don’t remember last time taking this long to get through it). I actually went to the store later, which would have been incredibly [...]

Still Writing

I was, first of all, wrong. Very, very, very wrong. It is now 2:15 am, CDT, and I am officially (and have been for several hours) experiencing a Brando moment. It *is* just as bad as last time.
Rather than writing safely, out of sight, (like in, say Word, or heaven help me, on paper — [...]

In Memoriam

It’s Memorial Day here, in the States, and, before I say anything, I want to say thank you. I thank you, men and women who pursue your calling so that I am free to pursue mine. Men and women who have seen things that I cannot even begin to imagine. I come from a [...]

Tap Tap Tap

I’ve made 72 hours.
I haven’t had my Brando moment — you know, on my knees, screaming to the sky as the rain falls all around me, yelling “Stella.” I don’t think I’m going to, actually.
But I am extremely agitated. I don’t have chocolate. I don’t have food, really. I had meant to go [...]