snatched from correspondence Right now I'm sitting in the den of a man named Gene's house. He calls it "The Oak Room" because he loves oak and one day he decided he should have a whole room dedicated to that in his home. There is a fair amount of oak in this room, it isn't absurd to call it the Oak Room after all. My mom's sleeping with Gene in ( Read more... )

"'Dancing is diverting if you are watching, and also if you are dancing yourself. But how can you 'dance yourself'? Is 'self-dancing' the answer? I was fond of stick dancing at one time. THere was some joy in that. But then a man came and said I was using the wrong kind of stick. He was a stick-dancing critic, he said, and no one used that kind of ( Read more... )

SO, I declared 10/4 the Universal Day of Communication and Understanding ( Read more... )

so, yesterday, my car was totaled. bye, bye, rmz.

I am growing larger! Great gusts of butterflies stretch my innards until they are so thin you can't even tell they are.

THAT'S ALL!

Are you humbly grateful or grumbly hateful?

"Why is it that we seem to be at ease with some people at at total dis-ease with others? We tend to think it's their personality, or perhaps their mannerisms, or their attitude, which keep us in an unrelaxed state. But it's not. It is something within us that is uneasy and they are only the trigger. Perhaps they remind us of a stressful ( Read more... )

Nobody died when Clinton lied.

The life of a bubble is fleeting.

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
-Anonymous

[Life goes on. While "Mo' Money Mo'Problems" probably rings true to someone somewhere, it's more like "Less Money Mo' Problems" for me. I have taken up housecleaning like the women in Nickel and Dimed to {middle-aged ( Read more... )