April 2011

I’ve been reading. “I would give someone a record, so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.” -Steve Chbosky- And I’m thinking. How many times have I done that? How many times have I shared a book, a song, an actor, a show, a blog [...]

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20 Everything is temporary. Change could be a second, an hour, a day, a year away but it’s a certainty. 19 Leave a party just a little after it’s peaked. 18 It is my responsibility to explain the reasons I’ve been hurt. It is not the responsibility of another person to have to guess. 17 Do not [...]

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I had so much fun completing the short history of me post from last week that I spent a few days collecting photos from the last 30 years. I laughed, I sighed, I cringed, I hid some away.  This post is probably more for me than it is for you. 30 years ago…I looked like [...]

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According to my Twitter profile I’ve been a member since 15 May 2007. That’s four years. Yet, I only started using it consistently in the last two months. And I enjoy it twenty times more than Facebook. (I’ve done the math.) While Facebook usually makes me want to stab my eyes out with a freshly [...]

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Dear Future ManFriend, It’s been awhile, I know. But see over the last year, I’ve been trying to reconcile two feelings that formed like cement in the pit of my stomach. The one feeling is that you are most definitely out there but coming towards me at snail mail pace. The other is that you [...]

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Dear Eleni, I’m not sure what to do. My best friend and I have been friends for about 7 years. When we first met we ended up living together and doing EVERYTHING together. Those were our younger years and everything was so much more carefree. Fast forward to 6 years later, she now lives  4 [...]

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…there was a lot of frustration and anger. I expressed it in this tribute to Angry Birds. …there was confusion. I expressed it in writing. …but there there was also spontaneous bursts of courage. I found it here. …and more joy in taking baby steps in my new brogues. How was YOUR week…in moods? All [...]

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30 years ago… I was in my mother’s belly feeling antsy. Let’s do this thing already. She was lying in a hospital bed begging me not to come out until I was ready. I held out for another 11 days. So, you know, never say I don’t listen to my mother. 20 years ago…I wanted [...]

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