The Fishbowl
If I’m being frank, I’d have to call yesterday an ordeal. And I was hoping that once I began my first day as a volunteer for the non-profit agency that serves the low-income seniors of this community, my life would change forever - there would be new and apparent purpose and a spring in my […]
Did I mention that I hate cats?
So resort week is officially over and the whole relaxation thing but a memory. No matter how hard I try to vacation, how completely I shake free of the anxiety and the pet hair and the mundane worries of the day to day, somehow all these things catch right back up with me upon return. […]
Word Wizards
Today I meme. It’s a literature-meme, so I’m excited…
Mizmell has tagged me and I am supposed to grab the book nearest to my left elbow and open to page 123. I am to find the fifth sentence on the page and copy the next three sentences after the fifth here in this blog. And while […]
I’m Back and Sun Bitten
I’m back. Well, back in the way that any person is back from a tropical vacation…back to laundry and meal planning, back to the effort of regaining the normal flow of our daily lives, all while trying to right our plummeting moods, fighting the mild depression ushered in by the bleak February sky, the whispers […]
While I’m Away
I knew there would be some good that comes of this blogging thing. And low and behold I was able to fashion a short story using snippets of my writing from the Madmarriage space. When I return from vacation I will have to FedEx this story and the first few chapters of Habeas Corpus to […]
Pestilence and Dramatic Weather Events
I’m typing a brief adieu, I’m off to Florida where I hope to unwind and run sand through my fingers and unveil my shoulders to the kiss of the sun for the first time since September.
But it’s got to get worse before it can get better, right? As you’re reading this, I’m probably […]
Without Him
She used to have sexual dreams of carnal lust and physical satisfactions but now she just dreams of being held. He is taller than her, the man who comes to her in sleep. Her face is always pressed to his chest while he wraps his arms around her. He kisses the top of her head […]
Weekend
I am not a very nice person when I’ve been a single parent for a five day stretch and I’m also not a very good writer at the end of such an exhausting stint. So I’m going to take it easy today and just do a sort of weekend round-up. Here are some good things […]
Auditory Ills
Goteeman turned me on to an exam of sorts today and my test scores did not surprise me. The results are in and the kind folks over at BlogThings have said:
You Are Totally Anal Retentive
Yup, you’re so uptight - people definitely have called you “anal.”
You’re the type of person who’s so OCD you organize your […]
Without Tears or Recrimination
We waited for a bleak, gray day to talk about it. That’s always the way. It’s so much easier to be confrontational when the weather is as dank and misty. Frustration can simmer even on the sunniest of days but in the gloom of February it just seems impossible to ignore.
Admittedly we’ve been patching it […]
