just because...

( The Widow's Walk )

Hello and I smell like ricotta ( Read more... )

Rough draft of a college essay and I quoted Paula Cole? And referenced Madonna?

Suppose Shakespeare's overdone but.... yikes.

is there anyone who would happily stay up all night with me, discussing the meanings and implications of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock... specifically, but not limited to, the last line (or stanza) " Till human voices wake us, and we drown."

( Alluding to illusions )

( Need a smile? (Safe for work, by the way) )

"It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this now, in some way the lines of our lives have intersected... For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.

It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been ( Read more... )

I walked into one of the local libraries and into the teen space to find someone staring at me. I did the classic doubletake, and was embarrased to find that it was a lifesize cardboard cutout of Legolas. So, for everyone around here, if you want to curl up with a book next the (heartthrob?) Orlando Bloom, it's possible! Fully possible! (Of course ( Read more... )

"On account of the inevitable spiral toward a heat death, I wish to inform you that any more words that you speak in this room will not be tolerated.  We have assistants working around the clock to record the goings-on, and frankly, someone made a critical error at some past incalculable point in time.
"In the last several decades, much more is ( Read more... )

This time in my life is threatening to make a believer out of me. As the hospice worker (an angel on earth if I ever met one) put it, there are so many minutes in the day... it was too much for a coincidence. I don't know what I believe, though, because assigning logic to spiritual beliefs- especially believing in an omniscient, omnipotent god who ( Read more... )

I think my problem is:

I don't pad stories well.

(Took me a while, yeah.)