Living 5+ hours away from my family, I don't know my nieces and nephews as well as I would like. Shopping for Christmas and birthdays can be challenging. With my youngest niece's b'day coming up, I wasn't getting a lot of suggestions from her parents. Then last night, my mom tells me that here lately, her thing is writing ( Read more... )

B/c my brain is still on overdrive... that's why ( Read more... )

So, I did it again today. I'm not proud of it, but I'm not sorry either. I'll probably do it again in the near future. I've been cautious about who I've confessed this to, but none of the parties concerned is a friend on LJ, so I figure I can write it here ( Read more... )

Ok, so floating another "what the heck does this mean?" out there to the world ( Read more... )

Call this kind of thing what you will - coincidence, cheap circuitry, sunspots, latent TK abilities, whatever. I have my own ideas… but for now, just the facts ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here listening to a podcast of the Diane Rhem show. She has Pat Buchanon on. Wow. I'm sitting here listening to him decrying the fall of the US because of "diversity." He's basically claiming that the US is going to fall apart b/c of racial, religious and.. I guess idealogical diversity. Every word that is coming out of his mouth ( Read more... )

Wow, a year already ( Read more... )

To whom it may concern ( Read more... )

So, I get a call from Mom tonight... almost never a good thing mid-week. She has news about one of my aunts (her oldest sister). Said aunt has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Not happy news by any stretch of the imagination, but the doc seems to have an aggressive treatment plan in mind to start within the week. What's more worrisome to me ( Read more... )

And I don't just mean "Good Night Moon" and "Horton Hears a Who" either (although they have been a crucial stepping stone). Today I completed reading my first "grown-up" novel since my brain injury (Guardian of the Horizon, but Elizabeth Peters, for those who care). It took about four months, but I did it and I'm ready to start the next one (One ( Read more... )