It is said that a big chunk of the American Dream is to be an entrepreneur, to be the captain of one's own vessel, to give corporate America the finger and strike out on one's own. Well, I went that way about five years ago based primarily on the fact that I don't work too well with others(I have never been good at meaningless water cooler chit ( Read more... )

Been up and down the map the last few days. Head in the clouds,literally,yesterday morning, then toes in the ocean by nightfall,colors exploding overhead ( Read more... )

How long has it been since I've posted? So long that I had to go through a friend's journal to remember my name. Yikes.A fading sense of self actualized ( Read more... )

If somone claims to be naive, can they really be?

Got those spring time is coming,too busy to update days upon me. Happens every year this time. I know I'm not the only one.

Skipped the Judas play in NY in favor of an odd little piece from  London called Shockheaded Peter,  an Victorianesque Grimm's fairy tales/ Edward Goryish production that was so funny and frightening at the same time. ( Read more... )

Going through the theater listings in NYC and I come across The End of the Moon, works by Laurie Anderson inspired by her residency with NASA. NASA has artist's residency? Go figure. She also was the author of an essay in the Encylopedia Brittanica, I read. AND she was married to Lou Reed, which few people know. Not that I'm some big follower of ( Read more... )

So glad to put that week to rest,stressful bitch that it was. The lake is safe, I pulled the enormous amount of money that I owed Amex out of my ass miraculously, and that cold that was my body's way of dealing with both those issues is gone. Glory be.

Gathering my Fall clothes that are too heavy for this pretty spring weather, hauling them to the ( Read more... )

A letter addressed "Resident" arrived in my mailbox yesterday. The writer claims to own the lake behind our house and says he is "looking into avenues" of sale on the property. He doesn't own any land, just the lake. And now he wants to sell it.

It's as though someone just told me I have to pay for the air or the ocean. There is a whole ecosystem ( Read more... )

I've been really feeling the loss of some close friends recently. Their absense is palpable, the void almost physical, tangible.And the miles, both actual and figurative, that run from now to then are, it can seem, longer than I have the energy to travel. And that's a bad mindset to fall into, unhealthy.

Friends are important, as any magazine ( Read more... )