We went to a science fair today...I haven't done this since high school I swear!  I should clarify:  my son is home-schooled, which is to say he's not in a regular day school with other kids but Jay teaches him at home...he also takes piano lessons, does trampoline--he's very good at that and loves it :)--and we've joined a kind of umbrella ( Read more... )

I know I should find something unique, creative, or even just helpful to say but it's hopeless I think...

I'm reminded at this moment of how useless language and words can be to convey what we truly want to say--this isn't to deny that great literature doesn't suceed in doing just this, think of just about any line or lines from any play of ( Read more... )

Weird dream last night--mostly I was just smoking a particularly fine cigar...and I do upon occasion smoke a cigar, well not a cigar really, what's it--the small ones like cigs--cigarillos?  Maybe--yeah, they're called Swisher Sweets--they taste kind of not so bad, really nice on a spring evening with a brew to go along with it--and I'm not keen on ( Read more... )

I don't mean it to sound so dramatic!  Just bit my cheek on the inside is all...I mean, this isn't pleasant--and it makes eating difficult--but I'll spare you the gory details, dear reader!

What gets me most about it is I do this so damn often...seems like every day sometimes--and of course there's no one to blame but myself...it's just too stupid ( Read more... )

I like that line...do you know it?  From Hamlet...the prince comes in reading a book and Polonius asks him what he's reading--and that's Hamlet's answer...so that's what I'll be on about here, words words words ( Read more... )