Not a quote today, but instead a film scene ( Read more... )

From Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady:

"It has made me better, loving you," he said on another occasion; "it has made me wiser and easier and - I won't pretend to deny - brighter and nicer and even stronger.  I used to want a great many things before and to be angry I didn't have them.  Theoretically I was satisfied, as I once told you.  I ( Read more... )

There are numerous things- quotes, songs, etc.- that make me hate being single more than ever.  Hence, I think I'm going to post one of them every day.  My first series.  How exciting ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand... I have a cold.

"Um.  Thanks.  The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found.  And over the last 21 years I have found loyalty; you have pulled for me on the court and also in life.  I have found inspiration; you have willed me to succeed sometimes even in my lowest moments. And I have found generosity; you have ( Read more... )

After a nerve-wracking late night of tennis last night with Andre Aggasi and Marcos Baghdatis, I got up early today to watch my boy Roger play at 9 am.  En route to my parents' house, however, I ran into a little obstacle- literally.  There was a cheap plastic pot or planter thing dead center in my lane.  There was a big curb to my right and a line ( Read more... )

An old favorite revisited courtesy of Johnny Mayer:

"Come Back To Bed"

Still is the life
Of your room
When you're not inside
And all of your things
Tell the sweetest story line
Your tears on these sheets
And your footsteps are down the hall
Tell me what I did
I can't find where the moment went wrong at all

You can be mad in the morning
I'll take back what I ( Read more... )

In just the past few days some eerily bad things have happened.  It's been very Friday the 13th-esque in my brain ( Read more... )

Someday they'll find your smalltown world on a big town avenue
Gonna make you like the way they talk when they're talking to you
Gonna make you break out of the shell cause they tell you to
Gonna make you like the way they lie better than the truth
They'll tell you everything you wanted someone else to say
Theyre gonna break your heart, yeah

From what I' ( Read more... )

I have to be honest- I don't understand the thrill of chasing someone around.  Show some interest, be sweet, and shower me with some compliments and I'm mush.  That's right, the sweet-talking ex made an appearance again tonight.  It's important at times like these to remember why I broke it off in the first place... and how the reunion/second ( Read more... )