Tonight's wisdom from my mother is: "This is your fault for having friends. If you didn't have a friend you'd never have an enemy ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about the past recently. I saw a facebook back for the NorthEast YMCA leaders school, which was a week long camp program I went to for three of my high school summers and I would say a program had did a great deal for shaping who I am. I started thinking about how positive I felt about life and my future then. I mean I ( Read more... )

I discovered the posted note function on my computer last night that allows me to put electronic posted notes-reminders- all over my desk top so I started writing myself little notes. They got kind of dark. I kind of want to take them off my screen but I don't want to forget them so I'm going to post them here. Here goes ( Read more... )

So I'm writing again with hesistancy since I am making a major change in the direction of the plot but with more confidence as I go along. I realized recently that while I am used to dealing a myriad of characters everytime I create a writing world this particular time one more than any of the others has actually become real to me, which is why I ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with a lot of stress and aniexty recently, some anger too. I know they say you can only controll yourself and what you do but other people can make life really difficult for you. I need a really long nap and a hug.

in response to something i read the other day ( Read more... )

From the West Wing ( Read more... )

Inspired by Bep, I watched a couple episodes of Firefly with Bethany tonight. I still so very much love that show.

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
- Douglas Adams.

"Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee. A businessman who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, 'We don't know how lucky we are.' And the Cuban stopped and said, 'How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to.'" - Ronald Reagan in his speech