I know I don't log on much here anymore... but I have a question for anyone who still reads this:

IUD? Good thing? Bad thing? Horror stories? Happy stories? Should I? Shouldn't I?

I love the (hypothetical) ease and lack of side-effects of them, but Googling turns up a terrifying number of people raging about insane amounts of weight gain. This ( Read more... )

It's funny the things that get to you.

I'm a member of a Facebook group for the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) -- the program that I did last summer in private therapy and by spending the evenings doing the group-intensive program the wussy wayThe 2011 "class" of stutterers is doing the SSMP right now, and the Facebook group is ( Read more... )

I bought the prettiest tights today!

Aren't they swank?


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Meet our new baby.


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I love this outlook. I need this outlook.

Billboard: This is the Mountain Goats’ 18th album in 20 years, not counting many other side projects and releases. What drives you to write so consistently?

John Darnielle: This is a line I’ve repeated so many times throughout my career: I don’t think I am special. I think other people are not taking ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, I went to a noontime yoga class offered near my office and after a good hour of stretching and just-strenuous-enough flow work, it was time for Savasana, corpse pose. This has always been a psychologically difficult pose for me -- the combination of muscles twingeing and settling and the utter stillness after an hour of intense ( Read more... )

Have you ever had those days where everything just feels hyper-acute? When the world is in almost-surreal, tilt-shift focus?

I feel something... but I'm not sure exactly what. Something that's crawling under my skin like ants, seething and squirming, and I don't know how to purge it.

I'm not creative enough to write a vignette or poem that captures ( Read more... )

Decisions ( Read more... )

thoughts:

1) I have to drive across the state tomorrow: a 6 hour drive... after a full day of work. I am so very much not looking forward to such an onward-past-midnight journey. I'm too old for this... I like my evenings. I like my schedule and especially when work tires me out so much, every day, the idea of piling a good quarter-day's driving ( Read more... )

Excitement ( Read more... )