The best thing to do
on a night like this
is to get ice cream cones
and walk along the beach
until you can walk no further
or until the sun rises.

Riding the Red Line ( Read more... )

I’m not an easy woman to understand,
coming across as very confident,
inside I’m just a vulnerable little girl
wanting to be held, to know I’m loved.
I want to know that you are up to the challenge
and revel in the possibilities.
Life will not be boring with me.

I met Erin for coffee/tea today at the East Milton Starbucks. We walked three and a half miles and talked about all kinds of stuff. I'm going to miss her when she moves to L.A., but probably not as much as Steve's been missing her! She's an amazing kid ( Read more... )

3 good things on a gray Thursday

1) Coffee
2) Listening to my iPod as I walk nine misty miles and discovering that Allie
has included the Batman TV show theme in the music mix
3) A few minutes conversing with a stranger while waiting for the light to
change

Photographs are darkness and light.
Better to see where you are going
than to dwell on where you've been.
Does the visual person look within?
There is darkness and light
inside the human mind.

The staff salaries budget approved for FY 2006 was $201, 642. The proposed salaries budget for FY 2007 is $204, 379 (an increase of only $2,737). The finance committee recommended a budget of $168, 620 on 4/27. On 5/1, they recommended a budget of $98, 230. Our newest part-timer (an aide) and I will be the first lay-offs. Next will be the full ( Read more... )

It is said that the road to a friend is never long ( Read more... )

"Maybe people only ask you how you're doing ( Read more... )

I don't recall what my question was when I wrote an email to my friend Erik. His response (and I saved it and just found it) was: "As far as I know, there are no formulas but there are "laws." What I do know is that if you ask the universe for answers with an open heart, they will come.......although often in unexpected ways ( Read more... )