REPOST: Is Worth...
Fingertips trail ancient walls, the occasional tree gets hugged; the mood of a city filters in through my senses. Years later, a sound or scent or taste will take me right back. Even better, I have...
View Article...A Thousand Words
I'm shy.Sort of.Not really.Okay, it's like this. It's my face. I have zero control over what appears on it. Every stray thought and emotion starts in my eyes and makes its way over my lips and cheeks...
View ArticleThursday Thirteen: What I've Learned So Far
On Becoming Film Producer1. Failure is your friend. I could trot out the expected cliche, 'Failure is a great teacher'. It's true, but not my point today. Each failure adds value to the next attempt....
View ArticleIt Was Like A Mafia Don's Funeral
She was a little runt of a stray...but wow, talk about personality, she had wayy more than her share. She had no front claws (I hated to, but she kept her claws out all the time, I still bear the...
View ArticleIt's Official I'm Crashed...and Cranky
Good Lord and Heavens to Betsy, I hate this disease.I'm a complete psychopath right now; fit for neither man nor beast. I'm pre-menstrual, post-moving, peri-new apartment and pre-brother's sixth...
View ArticleCover His Face,...He Died Young
When I got the news, I would have given anything for it not to be true. Day and night, for many weeks this poem ran through my head.~Jason, my baby brother.1975-2004 ELAINE OH, come again to Astolat!...
View ArticleThursday Thirteen: Things: What I'm Grateful For This Week
1. Dark Chocolate...'nuff said.2. Buying books. Adding to my collection for pretty, pretty bookshelves is such a joy.3. New Kitty, of course; and the cat condo a friend gave me.4. The gorgeous,...
View Article"Oh Lord, give me health and strength."
While reflecting on the incongruity of my daily life with ME/CFS and my work life; I found a brief and powerful piece written by film critic Scott Jordan Harris at 3six5 preposterous. Reading about...
View ArticleThursday Thirteen: Of My Favorite Quotes From My Favorite Movies
1. Ada Doom: I saw something nasty in the woodshed.Earl P. Neck: Sure you did, but did it see you baby? -- COLD COMFORT FARM2. Cousin Angus: There's NO butter in hell! -- COLD COMFORT FARM3. Noah...
View ArticleOf My Favorite Quotes From My Favorite Movies -- The One That Got Away
My favorite novel of all time is Jane Eyre. And I'd love to love, really for my favorite movie of all time to be based on my favorite novel of all time. Every version of Jane Eyre (save one) I've ever...
View ArticleReturn of the Laughing Baby
DO NOT, I Repeat DO NOT Laugh.Of course, if you don't...you're probably a cyborg or some such and should plug yourself in to the nearest outlet.
View ArticleThursday Thirteen: Happiness Is...
]1. A brand-spankin'-new pair o' monkey slippers. 2. A good book you know you will love even before reading the first sentence.3. Living a well-tree'd existence in a...4. Temporarily roommate-less...
View ArticleGood News...She Comes Like Flippin' Disaster On Cat's Feet
*Author(hee...always wanted to do that)'s note: Wrote this a few months ago right after the move. All is wellish now. A little alone time does amazing things. What the heck is wrong with me? I'm in a...
View ArticleHuman Target Season 2: Rest in Peace?
Does anyone remember the last time an action show successfully broadened their target demographic? I don't. The Human Target I fell in love with, boys-will-be-boys action and all; is all over. The...
View ArticleREPOST: Heard On The Bus
I am a reasonably well brought up girl, brought up in the suburbs with, to a large extent, small town values. 'Please' and 'thank you' are tattooed on my DNA, and the idea of occupying (say on a bus)...
View ArticleSo there's this really cool site, called instantwatcher.com
While fiddling around Netflix...I think I was looking for the blog...or something...well, anyway, I stumbled across a nifty little link entitled 'apps'. Netflix has apps? I like apps! And for...
View ArticleREPOSTED From Email: Midlife Crisis, Anyone?
So my biological clock started ticking the other day...loudly. It's funny because said timepiece has been dormant for so much of my life, I was pretty well convinced the notion of an alarm which goes...
View ArticleREPOST: The Library Book
I love libraries. They are, quite literally, the places on earth I feel most comfortable. Reading is a solitary experience, but the communal nature of library reading infuses it with a sense...
View ArticleAlas and Alack' My Dear Friends....
I've been the victim of a confluence of events that can only happen to *me*. There are those who might suggest my bed was made by me and now I should lie in it. Whether or not those people are right,...
View ArticleA Picture...
Photographs have been popping up in the oddest places. While slowly unpacking boxes from my 150th move in the past 5 years, old and/or forgotten snaps are unearthed. From the desk box, emerged a...
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