Okay, so the rundown of major changes ( Read more... )

Yesterday we put in a garden.  It's been unseasonably warm here, and the dirt was definitely dried out from all the rain we had last week, so we decided to put in all of our early spring vegetables that won't mind a light frost.  This was the first time I've had a garden since high-school... and I hated that garden.  I don't know what is making the ( Read more... )

 1 whole lemon ( Read more... )

 So, lots of things are new to me this year.  I'm old, I'm fat (but working on it!), I'm married, I live in Boston (to name a few)...  it's nice to be in a place where I'm slowly finding out that I can reinvent myself.  For the first time in a while, possibly as a result of things finally being right in my life, I'm finding my boundaries moving ( Read more... )

So in an attempt to do things that I've never done before, I've started running. Like, on a treadmill, since cold air and my lungs aren't speaking to each other right now. But I've never been a runner... more like a biker, or a swimmer... or anything that didn't involve running, actually... and now I'm finding that I don't hate it. So I set a ( Read more... )

Normally I'm not a big note-writer, and I tend to be pretty private with my emotions. However, this Annie Le thing has hit me really hard, for some reason, and I thought that maybe writing would be the best way to work out my feelings about this.

In case you haven't seen the news on this subject, Annie Le was a twenty-four-year-old doctoral ( Read more... )

Wow... it's been forever since I've posted.  I was thinking last night about what self-indulgent things blogs are, and how I always wanted mine to be just for me... which is pretty much negated when you open up posts for others to see.  Whiiiich I do.  So instead of coming up with a solution for this, I just stopped posting.  I realized that my ( Read more... )

All the time we spent in bed
Counting miles before we said
Fall in love and fall apart
Things will end before they start

Sleeping on Lake Michigan
Factories and marching bands
Lose our clothes in summertime
Lose ourselves to lose our minds

In the summer heat I might...
-Sufjan Stevens

I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose 
than to have never
lain beside
at all.

If life had an instruction manual, it might read like this:

LIFE
The ManualCongratulations!  You have just acquired your first LIFE.  This purchase will hopefully bring you a lot of happiness.*

*(purchase may also result in heartbreak, loss of hearing, loss of hair, loss of clothes, loss of virginity, athlete's foot, and loss of dignity)

To start, ( Read more... )