so, fortunately, I'm only being sued for $6,000, and it was a $6,000 I knew about, past due credit card.  Anway, as my landlady pointed out, I have not been properly served with papers, so I can wait until that time to be royally stressed.  Dammit, I plan on having my SUMMER ( Read more... )

So, I did something crazy last night.  I printed out my credit report.

Summarizing my life as viewed by creditors:

1. I was a responsible married woman with a child who obsessively paid bills on time, always making minimum payments at the least.  No credit card debt AT ALL during these years.  Bought a car, paid it off.
   
2. Finances suddenly exploded.  I ( Read more... )

Sigh..... how difficult bi-coastal parenting is --- yet sometimes suddenly filled with hope, albeit a strange, fleeting one ( Read more... )

I saw a short Latino man on the subway this morning, head wrapped in a white T-shirt cotton like cloth, with a bandanna tied over it.... and it makes me nostalgic for Santa Maria ( Read more... )

This beautiful piece was emailed to me last night from my father... I presume it stems from a recent conversation he had with my brother about my 'real' mother ( Read more... )

Telling dirty jokes, giving alcoholic drinks. He always did this to me growing up, took me to parties with him, giving me wine coolers, with all the adults telling jokes I didn't understand.... leaving me to conclude that every stupid joke was about sex. I think I gave this idea to the other kids at school too. I remember feeling stunted, being ( Read more... )

Thinking more on the sins of our fathers.... it took me a long time to see anything right in what mine had done. I remember crying to WT, many years later, in a youth group meeting and somehow feeling more at peace with him after that, only to really hear the stories later of what a creep he had often been and proved still to be ( Read more... )

Another perspective on the whole family thing is how people treat your significant other ( Read more... )

What a strange business blood-relations are ( Read more... )

so funny, what a thrill it is, to suddenly find the *world* falling all over itself... answering my evite within the hour, swearing to come over, bringing booze, their significant other and whatever else ( Read more... )