I didn't ever think that I would get to this point... in fact I had held tightly to the belief that pain was (is?) inevitable in these matters, that one gets attached... magically... through sheer human contact... As if the (accidental) deliberate brush of fingertips against a wrist, the stroking of a scar, the tickle of eyelashes beneath shut eyes ( Read more... )

I walked past this place almost every other day for 4 years. There's a rusted volkswagen hanging about somewhere along that lane... you can't see it in the photo ( Read more... )

Cat Haikus ( Read more... )

"What about the girl in your story? Did she find it depressing, or funny ( Read more... )

“Lies I’ve Told My 3 Year Old Recently ( Read more... )

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-charge/index.htmlRead more... )

Life never quite lives up to the intensity and the romanticism one sees on screen and on the pages of written words ( Read more... )

So here's me stealing again. All credits, exceptindreams. I can relate to this on so many levels. There's an entry in the time traveller's wife about conditional parental love as well... or maybe it's really about all the terms and conditions attached to the love anyone has for anyone else ( Read more... )

So anyway, you kinda know where this poem is going right from the start, guess it kinda appeals to me in a teenaged sort of way. -shrug- credits to exceptindreams where i stole it from ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been haunting the non-fiction shelfs of bookstores, history, sociology, social anthropology, feminist literature, business, management, marketing... so many things to read, so many interesting opinions, so much comedy to be found in the real world and so little time to pursue the wealth of useless information they promise me. So ( Read more... )