Gosh I was on a roll there for a little while with writing in my journal and then it just kinda petered out. I do notice though that my creativity waxes and wanes with the moon just like my menstrual cycles. It's interesting but I have noticed that the closer we get to the new moon, the stronger the pull is to write, create, etc. Huh. I wonder if I ( Read more... )

~~Happy Birthday Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling!!~~Today the kids and I will be enjoying a Harry Potter movie marathon complete with popcorn and cake in honor of Harry's birthday. *snicker* Yes, we are that geeky. Big Potterheads in this house, one and all. Maybe I'll start reading the books again with my son since the first time round, he was too ( Read more... )

I had a crazy squirrel experience yesterday morning. I went to the front door to let the cat in and I heard this really weird noise in the yard. One of the cats was looking up an evergreen tree we have in the front yard and the noise kept getting more insistent (sort of a squeaky panicked yellish noise). I kept calling the cat because obviously, ( Read more... )

I wrote something today. Something I am moderately proud of and hopeful that there might be some potential in it. More importantly, I actually emailed the bit I wrote to three very close friends and asked them to read it and tell me what they thought...whether it was an idea worth putting more time into and developing into an article worthy of ( Read more... )

I wrote a short post about this on MDC but decided to elaborate here ( Read more... )

You know, there was a time when "jam session" would have only meant one thing to me. This is not that time. I have spent the last 36 or so hours making apricot jam and while it still involved incredibly loud music and slightly off-key singing, the result produced is far more domestic ( Read more... )

I sat down to watch Rent the other night and my 6.5 year old son decided to curl up with me on the couch and watch it too. I figured he'd fall asleep. But no! He has a new found love of musicals! He stayed awake past 10 PM, almost to the end--till where they found Mimi ( Read more... )

Interestingly, because I am able to post on message boards incessantly, spewing nonsense and having deep Harry Potter related conversations, I find it difficult to post at my own LJ. I don't really know why. Maybe I'm lazy. Maybe I'm busy. Or maybe I have some trouble putting my personal thoughts out here in a place where others can read them but ( Read more... )

e.e.cummings has always been one of my favorite poets. I became enthralled with his work when I was 14 years old and bought my first book of his poetry then. It is well worn and smells of smoke and, now, dust. I was looking through it the other day for the first time in years and found a poem I had marked back in 1989. I know that it was 1989 when ( Read more... )

I don't get to see my best friend very often. We live on opposite sides of the country and I have 3 kids, she has a tight work schedule and neither of us has the means to just jump on a plane whenever we want. blah blah blah--there are always reasons. I visited her 3.5 years ago and she has come to visit me once since then. It's okay but there are ( Read more... )