and wondering why I don’t care more about the Opal Mehta scandal. I mean, it’s scandalous! So why do I find it mostly . . . boring? It’s like the James Frey scandal—at first I think whoa. lookit. can you believe the idiocy? whaddya know but beyond that I’m yawning.
With this one, I’ve been trying [...]
Archive for April, 2006
Eating Chee-tos and drinking beer . . .
Posted in Writing on April 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s good to get away for a few days
Posted in Family, Writing on April 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Even if you’re spending every waking moment with people who think the funniest words you can utter are “butt” and “butt-cheeks” and who spend an inordinate amount of time uttering them.
Also, even from the internet. I did NOT take the laptop, *gasp*. And I was glad I didn’t. *Gasp, GASP* I spent my few moments [...]
Road trip!
Posted in Family on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’m packing up the children and their stuff (WHY do they have so much STUFF?) and hitting the road for Ann Arbor tomorrow. My brother lives there (he’s a prof at the Univ. of MI) with his lovely wife and sprite of a daughter.
Did I mention that *I* am driving the children? As in BY [...]
That wacky rusalkatrix
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
led me to this goofy distraction.
And normally I think these astrological thingies are amusing but so bogus. I have to say though, this tree part of the birthday calculator for me is spookily close:
Your birth tree is Rowan, the Sensitivity
Full of charm, cheerful, gifted, without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest and [...]
Aaaa!
Posted in Family, LiveJournal on April 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
After a jam-packed, cram-packed Holy Weekend (yes, I know it’s not called that, but Holy Week—Holy Weekend, I’m thinkin’), I thought I would be able to go back online, right? Even if the kids are out of school? I should be able to find a FEW MINUTES somewhere in the day?
*sob*
More later . . .
(she [...]
Because I love seeing other people’s
Posted in Writing on April 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Are writers thieves?
Posted in Writing on April 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t find the post, but recently Cindy wrote that a writer friend of hers said that writers are thieves. That we raid the lives of others, as well as our own, stealing detail to spin into fiction.
And it bothered me when I read it, but couldn’t put my finger on what was bugging [...]
The dad roller-coaster chugs upward
Posted in Family, LiveJournal on April 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
That’s a goofy-looking subject line.
My father had a turnaround over the past few days, I would say a “surprising” turnaround, except we’ve been yanked upward and pounded down so many times through all this that nothing–NOTHING–would surprise me at this point.
He was discharged from the hospital today and will spend a few days rehab in [...]
Don’t have a title for this one
Posted in Family, LiveJournal, Writing on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I thought about writing an “opening up” kind of post, about this roller-coaster of grief that I and my family have been riding for two years. I thought I might vent, or dump, or do something carthartic like that in this space, for the first time since I started this LJ.
Then I thought, “nah.”
I don’t [...]
Empty
Posted in Family, LiveJournal on April 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
After spending something like a third of my entries on LJ either mewling about how do you write this? or– how do you balance the time it takes? or– oh, I don’t know if I can keep doing it!, I finally get a grip on how I want to write here, and make a commitment [...]
Wyth the ghoste of Aprill Foole’s Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog?
Sweete, sweete did shew the linke to mee and it pleaseth mee. Certes!
(and goodness knows I'm appreciating every possible chuckle lately)
