I've decided to keep my recounting of my tepid sexual adventures for friends only. Not that there is any heavy-duty scenes or hardcore...more coming of age/discovery type stuff for now. But it is personal enough that I would rather have an idea who is peeking. No big deal screening here...just ask nicely...or better yet (if female)...be a bitch ( Read more... )

Thanks so much to all of you lj'ers who have taken the time to wish condolences on my mother's recent passing. I have been very pre-occupied with the various arrangements, and now going through her house (my childhood home). My father passed away just a year earlier. It is a heavy physical and psychological task to go through over 40 years of ( Read more... )

After a very short battle with cancer, my mother passed away in the hospital this past weekend. She was only 64. I have been, and will be pre-occuppied tending to this, so won't be updating for a while.

My mother went into the hospital less than 2 weeks ago because of a bad cold that turned out to be pneumonia. Within a couple days, they had done chest x-rays and CAT scans and discovered that she has advanced lymphoma. Life can just sucker punch you sometimes.

To those of you who have noticed my lack of posting over the past couple weeks...thanks for noticing. I've been doing some summer trips and travels... New England seashore, Ontario camping, etc. Due to limited computer access on the road, I do check in occasionally to read friends ljs and sometimes even post inane comments. Hope to return to ( Read more... )

It's just been too damn hot and humid here to do much other than contemplate means of escape. I'm off to New England for a while...maybe to Walden Pond. It inspired Thoreau.

Sometimes it's good to just get away for a weekend of camping. Sleep under the stars, paddle through a calm lake, hike a trail...all without a laptop or monitor within a 100 miles. It's an opportunity to remind myself that I can live for more than an hour without going online. Hell, I even left my mp3 player behind. My only music was the ( Read more... )

I want to wish all my American friends a very happy Independence Day. And to those of you wondering if we have a July 4th here in Canada... the answer is yes we do. It generally falls between the 3rd and 5th day of the month :-)

My ISP has been giving me all kinds of grief lately...mostly in the form of poor connection speed. I pay good money for high-speed DSL and all I've been getting lately would pale beside a 56k modem. This comes at a particularly inopportune time since I've just recently discovered the joys of IMing. It's kinda ironic; I was using Bitnet for ( Read more... )

So why can't I get back to adding to this journal/blog? It seems that each time I return, I am just so distracted by everyone else's entries that I am off on a wild ride through LJ. Hell, I've become something of a commentwhore (there's a new expression I learned here ( Read more... )