Dear I ( Read more... )

My Christmas philosophy this year is "ask and ye shall receive" and its lesser known twin "don't ask and ye shall not receive."  I want to celebrate the holidays.  I want to feel festive and spread joy and send cheer and greet the season.  I want to, but I'm just not there.  My mind feels tapped out, my wallet most certainly is, and honestly, I can ( Read more... )

1. Maggie Rogers - "Fallingwater" (how I felt about Mom's cancer ( Read more... )

Just read a few chapters from Amy Poehler's Yes Please and am suddenly inspired to write something on my laptop.  (Her last story in the book was about how she lost her MacBook Air and then found it again, and apparently, that is all it takes for me to want to open up my MacBook Air and starting typing something ( Read more... )

Top 12 Favorite Tunes in 2018, in somewhat chronological order ( Read more... )

A long, long time ago, a man who had (just then) become my only one-night-stand gave me a blue t-shirt screenprinted with Bob Marley's smiling, uplifted face, and a quote: "My home is in my head ( Read more... )

Dear S ( Read more... )

8 hours after my previous post, I proceeded to have (what may be characterized as) a pretty (epic) Bad Day.  It started at 3:30 a.m. with my waiting for a 45-minute-late bus (but I made it to work on time, oh yes I did), and ended with a spectacular breakdown at Target, sobbing as I forked over my plastic to a concerned Target Team Member, my first ( Read more... )

A few years ago, when my aunt and my cousins came to visit, I took them on a walk through my old E Valley neighborhood.  I told them about the neighborhood black cat and raccoon we've befriended, pointed out our cross-the-street neighbors (who would eventually be witnesses at our wedding), and I was talking about Peter Rabbit (a neighborhood rabbit ( Read more... )

Natalie and I agreed to exchange a CD mix of top 12 favorite songs from 2017!

Here's what I came up with, in chronological order of obsession:

1. Ryn Weaver - "OctaHate"
Technically released* in November 2016, but it held on strong through January

2. Mary Lambert - "Secrets"
Another single from the Selfie soundtrack that was released in November ( Read more... )