April 2005
Observations
1) Native Midwesterners are completely incapable of pronouncing the word “Chipotle”.
2) I should really stop reading the blog by the “expat” who lives an hour north of Washington and talks about how everything in America seems so foreign now that she’s Canadian. That’s like if I wrote a blog about the strange explorations I conduct [...]
things I would like to remember
I was on a walk today, soaking in the glittering beauty of a spring morning. It occurred to me that in winter and summer, light only has one path to travel among the trees - either straight to the ground (winter) or not at all (summer). But in spring, the light shimmers and wafts through [...]
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I just about cried myself silly when I read about Aurora, the four year old octopus who defended her eggs from the draining of her tank by unobservant aquarium workers who believed the eggs to be sterile. She continued to spray water over her eggs and cleanse them even when they were above the waterline [...]
Read more >>The biggest year of my life
This year has been wonderful so far, but I think in a lot of ways it’s the biggest year of my life. I’m accomplishing a lot of wonderful things I’ve set out to do, things that I once did not believe myself capable of. I am publishing a book this year. I am working with [...]
Read more >>“But if I keep them, and she marries him, then he probably won’t want me dating her.”
I kicked my elliptical trainer’s ASS tonight. Foo on you, fat burning cardio! You thought you had me, but the little fat girl came back in the last round and was VICTORIOUS!!
Sorry, just a little moment of celebration. It’s been a couple of weeks since I was on the elliptical (what? It’s beautiful outside! Why [...]
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I told her “Hold on, honey, don’t you lose your spirit to the wind”
I just got back from the my first tour of the woods this year.
I was looking for bluebells, and found pansies and irises and wild herbs.
The sky was slate stormy, but still.
The redbuds are blooming, and creeping out of the creek banks onto the roads.
The ivy is already clambering up them, mixing [...]
two realizations
1) I’ve lost ten pounds, and it was easy. In fact, I’ve eaten a lot of tacos, pizzas and burritos in the last month. Maybe I’ll cut back on those a wee bit and see where it takes me.
2) I’m going to SCHOOL in the fall, which means someone is going to be GRADING me. [...]