If you switch two letters in the word unite, you get untie. More proof that it's just that easy for what you thought was there to fall apart.

Life is throwing me a lot of lemons. I keep trying to make lemonade out of them, but I have no sugar so it tastes like shit.

This whole week, all of it, there have been tears hiding behind my eyes, but they can't figure out how to escape. If you saw me you'd never be able to tell. Sometimes we consider this ability to hide our feelings a good thing. We give it the name strength to mask what's really going on. We don't know how to deal with ourselves. The truth is, I can' ( Read more... )

They say humans can adapt to anything, but we certainly take a while to pull it off ( Read more... )

O man.  And I do not mean a country north of Yeman and east of Saudi Arabia.  Although if I did mean that country I would probably be writing about something a lot smarter and more intelligent.  Probably sadder as well.  Anyhow, what I mean is, Oh man!  It's been a while since I've done any typie-typie on lj.

It's hot outside lately, and I've been ( Read more... )

10 REALLY RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME ( Read more... )

I think today was productive.  I think I got somewhere today.  I think, if I do the research, if I don't limit my parameters yet, I might be on to something.

I think.  I might.  Something.

Does anybody know how to go about finding a "writer's group?"  and at that, a good one?

Don't you hate when you think, Man, I should post.  I should get ( Read more... )

Of all the children playing outside of our window, the screaming girl is the making it the most difficult to sleep. I know most of us don't go to bed until Jay, or Dave, or Jon, or Conan tuck us in, but some of us, some of us need to sleep now ( Read more... )

Only Chuck would be able to take 24 short stories he has written over the years and quilt them together into a seamless 400 page novel. Twenty-four unrelated topics blended together to make something close to a masterpiece ( Read more... )

It is May, right?  Because it snowed for a half an hour today, and I wanted to make sure.

I also saw a car today that puzzled me greatly.  It had seven, count 'em seven, BUSH, BUSH CHENEY, W, BUSH CHENEY, I Stand with George W. Bush, W, BUSH, stickers on it.  The car holding these stickers; a Honda Civic Hybrid.  Yeah, I don't know what that's ( Read more... )