Worn Out Welcome

Okay, it’s official, I’m done here.  I have started to slowly dismantle my blog and pull the whole thing down but I want to read comments one last time and print some of my favorite ones out to paper first so it’ll still  be here for a bit longer.  But otherwise I’m done with this [...]

I Was a Pre-Teen Daredevil!

Days like today (and the previous week and, by all forecasts, this coming week) are the reason that I have always loved September (and October) around this area.  The skies are strikingly blue, the air crystal clear, the days warm and the nights cool.  I don’t have any big plans for today.  R comes home [...]

Being outside makes me sick.

It’s almost midnight and after an evening of laying on the couch with my head buried under pillows, thinking it was going to explode, I seem to have finally recovered.  I was fine all day until shortly after dinner when I developed one of my migraines.  I never used to get these things but within the last [...]

Rollerboy

The summer of 78.  My summer between the 8th and 9th grades and one of the few pin-pointable turning points in my life.  Disco was at it’s peak and no matter where you went, you couldn’t get away from it.  I was already listening to Bowie, Patti Smith, Blondie, only one year away from going [...]

Celebration!

Today, after four months of what seemed like nonstop work because that’s what it was, I finished painting the exterior of this house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I nearly burst into tears as I dabbed the brush into the last corner that needed touched up.  My left hand is in incredible pain and cramped up from holding that damn [...]