People seem to think that freedom dies when you have kids. I feel happier than I have in years. I feel the future. Kids definitely aren't for everyone, but calling my life tied down is such bullshit. We all have limits on us, whether we want to admit it or not, and sometimes those limits enhance rather than constrict. People jail themselves all the ( Read more... )

Despite my limited energies these days (wah...wahh...) I am trying to keep busy. There is a by-appointment-only sculpture park run by a private artist up in Wells, about an hour away, and I want to set up a time to go up there next Saturday. Six year wedding anniversary vacation the weekend after that - up in Lake Placid, if we can secure the ( Read more... )

I see you, I remember you ( Read more... )

back home, living in Troy. it's my personal mission to explore this town to the bones, the way I didn't (or couldn't) when I was a kid ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I get the feeling that I'm on the edge of a new era in my life, (and I only count positive advancements as delineations of "new" eras) I am wrong. I hope I'm not wrong this time. Even if things don't pan out the way I want them too, I am experiencing a burst of new-found energy, and I hope nothing squashes it ( Read more... )

I've been working on a kid's book in which two siblings travel with their parents around NYS. It's been an excellent release for me, but I find I can only work on it on days that I have off or during which I worked days. Working nights + writing = nothing. I don't even try. Whenever there is research I don't feel like doing yet, I just put it off. ( Read more... )

I was going to post, and livejournal asked me if I wanted to keep my old last draft. I clicked yes, and this is what came up:

I keep trying to post, and then realize I just don't care to. I don't feel much lately besides quiet frustration, impatience, loneliness and fear.Things are looking slightly up from when I wrote that, I think, but for the ( Read more... )

I've never been what I appear, despite how apparent I seem.

WORK ( Read more... )

Going to do aerial silks again tonight! And I smell really bad today.

two facts.