believe it or not, i started this post less than three weeks after my last entry thinking that i had such a spate of trips and work issues coming up that i'll not have a good chance to record it all. well. we see how that went. now, i have to somehow recount the forever-changing state of my life, the upended world of fashion, and the mind- ( Read more... )

my life has changed in the span of a week and the churning of emotions has finally brought me back to my journal. i could say that it happened on the quiet walk this morning with my dog amidst the city fog and the lazy traffic lights slowly blinking red then green then staying there staring at us. or i could say it happened in that moment ( Read more... )

the line that hooked me into downton abbey two years ago came in the first episode when the duke gave a new spin to the saw, "one swallow doesn't make a summer," and well, it may not make a summer, but it may make an autumn. while it's probably too much to disclose, on a recent saturday night, i had one of those fantastically ideal dates with my ( Read more... )

well, i should have started this post in the moment of heightened pain in which i found myself almost a week ago. my chest rose up with fire like someone had pressed an iron weight on my lungs and dispersed a warm syrupy poison through my bloodstream. the moment came when my new someone intimated that our relationship had run its course. at this ( Read more... )

well, at least, i can scratch this year's earlier trip to miami off as my worst time in miami ever: last friday, due to my zeal for international travel and my lack of due diligence before booking, i dragged my new someone and myself down to the consulate general of brazil in miami to apply for last, last, last minute visas before we jet off for ( Read more... )

i have always said that truly good art inspires even more art and upon my second viewing of the new star trek film, i cannot reiterate that fact more. while i planned for this entry to cover the months of december, january, and february in my life, i must start it with the how that film not only hit all the bases i look for in my favorite ( Read more... )

it strikes me as an irony that in the months -- the year, really -- since i last posted something to this journal, i have written more than i have ever in my writerly past. i wrote the beginnings -- the underpinnings, really -- of a novel and have had my poetry published. in mere hours, i'll find myself celebrating the milestone of yet another ( Read more... )

Here is your Daily Single's Horoscope for Monday, May 14

It's undeniable -- you have the hots for this person and vice versa. But when you both clam up, a lot of nothing is going on. Pick up the phone and ask them on a date. Don't worry: failure's simply not an option right now.i write from a strange place of happiness: only three weeks ago, i ( Read more... )

it's often said that it's difficult to write happiness. it takes a little pain, a little conflict, a little fear to compel great writing. well, i'm auditing an american novel course and one thing i've noticed comes in the fact that it really takes very little of those things. mostly, writing involves living. and over the past month, i have ( Read more... )

Here is your Daily Single's Horoscope for Saturday, December 3

Lavish some attention on the most important person in your love life -- you. Treat yourself to a matinee, buy yourself a little treat you've had your eye on or just veg out luxuriously.well, one could say that i've found myself utterly neglectful but truly i haven't had the words to ( Read more... )