I've returned, recently, from three days in the city of Vancouver B.C. It's been 3 1/2 years since I last visited, and much is the same. Much is different ( Read more... )

I rode four different buses today, and they were all the older-style bus that sits higher up and have four stairs at the front door. That's unusual. Typically, I only see a bus like that every now and then, not every single bus I ride ( Read more... )

You step outside, at it has been so long since you have left your apartment (you have been ill, unable to even leave your bed much less consider leaving your building for a week. you are gaunt, shaky, and covered with greasy cold sweat all of the time) that the outside world seems hot, loud and smelly. You walk to bus stop, feeling vulnerable. ( Read more... )

One of my closest friends has a doctorate in religion, and works as a minister. When we last lived in the same town I would periodically drop in on his sermons. I am not a religious person, or a "joiner" so my reasons for keeping my distance are myriad but he is an effective and compelling speaker. One Sunday lecture has stayed with me for years ( Read more... )

The past year has been spent like this ( Read more... )

this is what I've done since last posting (not a comprehensive list to be sure ( Read more... )

I've been productive today, mind if I tell you a little about it ( Read more... )

this morning, I stood in the freezing cold at the bus stop. I was standing right next to the blue pole announcing the buses, and was very visibly clutching my bus pass when the bus pulled up. Since there were people about to come out the front door, I waited for them to debark. A woman ran up next to me, edging me aside, and said "are you ( Read more... )

I never seem to blog anymore, I'm not sure why ( Read more... )

I've been neglectful, and unfaithful. I've been blogging mostly on MySpace. Little, inconsequential blogs of nothingness. My home page here tells me I haven't posted in five weeks. That seems a long time ( Read more... )