We rejoin our little chickie-heroine having safely returned from her grand adventure in California ( Read more... )

Got to thinking about this thanks to a dear friend of mine who got her heart crushed when she found out an old bf she hadn't gotten over had gotten married. It was all love's fault, she claimed... how could she have placed any faith in the emotion to begin with-- that was her first mistake, according to her ( Read more... )

Well, I got to thinking, there was little Anne & the Giant Bird sitting on my icon for time-eternal, just waiting, and wishing wish upon wish to become an actual storybook ( Read more... )

Gee! Okay, so Mike's the one who never wanted me to set foot (or finger?) in LJ again, but he's the one who let me know about upcoming nuptials of lj-user="starshine2night ( Read more... )

Artist: Silversun Pickups
Song: Lazy Eye

Lyrics ( Read more... )

I have really really been liking radio 104.5-- another new format for this station that was "Sunny 104-5" not too long ago. Supposedly there was a Latin materialization of this station too since the last time I'd tuned into it a year ago and now ( Read more... )

"We are dust and to dust return ( Read more... )

Anyone ever see the britcom "Father Ted"?
very funny stuff.

Been renting & borrowing stuff by the truckload ever since we've cancelled the cable. Besides the 5-day weather forecasts on the Weather Channel, I don't hardly miss TV at all.

Girl of grief & grey
Awful tears non-stop-
What arose she didn’t reckon would result
When she begged, pleaded, keened for help

(“This is absolute buggery!
How long ago was it that she begged for quiet?
‘Just a bit of peace, some solitude, from all these constant demands,’ she cried ( Read more... )

As I'm sewing on the badges to Luke's Cub Scout uniform last night with clear nylon thread at 1:00 in the morning, I had a thought, that I am quite the Charlotte, persistently sewing up grand banners like " R A D I A N T! " in my neatest work... constructing these intricate support webs... for my incredulous little one.