It is really sad in Manhattan. None of the people who made the city interesting to live in can live there any more. Only people who are interested in upping the quota of millionaires and making a markedly dark thick line between the haves and have nots are affording to move in there. The politicians, the crappy artists, the international elite and ( Read more... )

Baking your first cake is not a cake walk after all- however, I feel quite sure of the future results. I am baking a three tiered wedding cake for Angel and Claudia's wedding on Saturday- tomorrow I am putting together the test cake and having a few people over to test out the frosting etc. and make some suggestions. I thought of making many ( Read more... )

Things have been improving here in CT. My mom is going to doctor's appointments and she has been going out with me. It is difficult for her to leave the apartment. She has strict rules about how far she can drive. I've been taking her to appointments and things like that, and out for shopping. Yesterday as we were walking around IKEA pretending to ( Read more... )

in connecticut- avoiding nyc- getting my life together.

yay!

My Nairobi Preparation Blog!

I have been so sidetracked this weekend I forgot to mention... I will be going to Nairobi, Kenya to work with orphans (predominantly HIV/AIDS orphans) doing some rehabilitative therapies and teaching in May 2007. I am extremely excited for it and will be updating my preparations on another, as yet untitled, blog which I will post to in the future.

nevermind... my mom is just mad at me.

and I have no idea why.

If anyone sees, or hears from, my mother, let her know that her two oldest children are wondering where she is, if she is okay, and why she is not returning our phone calls ( Read more... )

out of the night that covers me ( Read more... )

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in the grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" does not make any sense.

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi