It's been a great week. Really great. I got so much work done on my CD ... or at least I thought I had, recording three whole songs in one afternoon, but listening to them this morning, I'm thinking I might have to re-record two of them ( Read more... )

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page eighteen, find line four. Write down what it says ( Read more... )

I've been thinking this morning unbidden about the day we left on the journey, what that felt like. I just didn't know what lay around that corner. Come to find, it was just the same as what was on this side of it ( Read more... )

Okay, and now I have to tell about the time in a Native American religion class I took in college when I was trying, in the perfectly silent late-afternoon, windowless classroom, to stifle the laughter that kept erupting up out of me, entirely beyond my control ( Read more... )

Okay, so the Irish guy? You know, the one who sat there the entire first half of the semester looking like he was dissociating from reality from terror? The one who had a might-kill-someone-someday vibe? Turns out he's a comedianAnd not the scary kind of comedian you'd expect that from, no; the happy, fun, doing-something-exciting-with-his-life ( Read more... )

Some things are just too sublime to put into words. Even things that just happen inside yourself. Especially those things ( Read more... )

After a couple of weeks of balmy, 70-degree weather, it's snowing. I hope it kicks back and stays awhile.

WE GOT THE APARTMENT!!!!!

Apartment hunting has been arduous and seemingly endless. Sometimes I honestly believe there are good deals out there (we feel we can't afford something expensive; even though Mattie now has a permanent and well-paying job, both of us are too keenly aware from experience that sources of money can't be counted on to keep coming through as you hope ( Read more... )

See recently declassified NORAD photos of Santa here. These photos reveal that his appearance has changed very little in the decades from which we have documentation.