I haven't posted here in more than a year and a half. Journal closed. Thanks to the small, special group of readers I had.

1:50am  - Up for half an hour and can’t get back to sleep so I turn on the light and grab a book from my nightstand ( Read more... )

my friend Mads and I are GOING TO PARIS!

:-)

Not until next April, but we're already close to settled as to an apartment rental, etc.

-dies- Paris is my Holy Land.

Don't have many words of my own these days, so instead I will share one of my favorite poems:

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

--Emily Dickinson

To my beloved Jezzy-belly and my good friend Wendi Pate. Thank you both for letting me be a part of your life.

Edited to add: Got a call a few hours after posting this. Offer accepted!

I made an offer on a condo yesterday.  This old lady may be settling down at last.

On Sunday night, there was an incredible storm. Nature unleashed all She had - wind, rain, hail, and so on. The violence of the storm was exhilarating, at least to the homo sapien residing in my household ( Read more... )

http://vimeo.com/2897417

In a few hours I will be hugging a college friend whom I haven't seen in about 12 years. Thanks to facebook, we got back in touch, and I will be going to see him in a musical and talk for a bit afterward.

ETA: Well...it would have been easier to try to grow. :-(  He was great in the show; it was just the face-to-face that didn't work.

(Backdating this to Thursday because I forgot to post then.)

For the letter informing me that sexy dentist is once again accepting my insurance.