Had to review what was here, twelve years of dust, and all that. Can't believe what I wrote, or where I was in life. Where I am now, of course, is someplace new and rather different. Life contains multitudes and my capacities have been tested and re-tested, and altogether it has been good. Grateful for that.

Grateful for how things have transpired ( Read more... )

anyone still reading this and looking for gems, this is it. this is the one that you've been waiting for.... at the age of 23, with no real schooling accomplished, nor any real income to speak of, with not even so much as a marriage on my belt, i bought a house ( Read more... )

this is my procrastinatory post for the semester. first one in months of any sort, so this is indicative of my want to avoid the school work. it's easy, too! four classes for the first time in three years. ask me if i am excited ( Read more... )

dating: yes. updating: yes. dates--yes, i've had some today, thank you ( Read more... )

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there's nothing such as the feeling of having but one dollar in your wallet. i have a wallet: that's something. everything is plastic these days, so no pity is being sought today; after all, this is payday! i can put on real fancy items of clothing and peddle coffee and coffee accessories for eight hours tonight. i will, in fact, put on real ( Read more... )

same time every year, the nearly same feeling descends on top of gainesville, and people become commiserate. it, sis, is stunning. coordinated though it may appear, i can assure you that there is no mercy in its irascible scheduling, but the cardigans and scarves are efforts in match-making if i have ever seen it. blue on top of yellow ( ( Read more... )

he [cassius clay] brought the showmanship of professional wrestling to boxing in 1962, losing his money hand over fist, alone in this world save the love of his wife belinda, there is that history as well. it's an absolute joy speaking with those who were a part of those struggles, before title nine. young girls who are involved in sports, ( Read more... )

there was a man and he wrote all day long, but only in his head. what he thought never quite made it to print, physical or otherwise. this man is not myself, but some one other than me, strange and beautiful and young, but still with an achy joint pain that flares nightly, requiring extraordinary periods of rest & relaxation ( Read more... )

sufficiently tired of behaviors once exhibited, i retired into something a bit more tailored, something tried once before by other men, and it worked for them: by golly! might it not work, then, for me, too? it started always in the pantry ( Read more... )