In case you hadn’t noticed, stuff is falling apart all around you. In case you hadn’t noticed, it always has been. Someone is always losing a job or hitting a wall or falling out of love. Someone else, somewhere else, is making something new out of what didn’t seem to exist before, an idea or [...]
new year
Today was a very, very hard day for stuff getting done. Between watching the inauguration (before, during and after which I cried at least 15 times) and a brutal teeth cleaning (floss early, floss often, young people) I was pretty much a spent rag of a wreck by 3pm. So while our amazing new President [...]
I’ve tricked The BF into watching yet another corny BBC costume drama with me. (Heh heh heh.) This time, it’s the 2005 version of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, featuring the endearingly odd Gillian Anderson (who most famously played Scully of American television’s The X Files, and who has one of acting’s craziest head-to-body size ratios [...]
This week was a banner week for crossed signals and nutty communication. A topsy-turvy week, if you will. This morning, for example, The BF and I arose just before the crack of dawn, thanks to a call from his son, who lives several states away and is not really old enough to appreciate the time-zone [...]
The good news is I practiced today. The bad news is, I almost didn’t practice today. Not because practicing the guitar for 10 minutes is so awful, or because a horrible misfortune befell me, or because I willfully threw up my hands (instead of wrapping them around the guitar) and said, “I quit!” I almost [...]
I realize that while I chronicle my overall personal struggles, confusion and very occasional triumphs here, that not everyone here reads or even gives a toss about my business-y, marketing-y or other non-core communicatrix-y stuff. (Although I could argue that as I am the communicatrix, pretty much anything I work on is de facto communicatrix-y, [...]
There’s a little lunch-y shop in The BF’s neighborhood that we patronize from time to time, for a sandwich or a salad, or sometimes just an espresso drink. The chef-proprietor is quite gifted in the kitchen: he’s Cordon Bleu-trained and no slacker with post-graduate education, as evidenced by the interesting new dishes and combinations he’s [...]
For those of you who’ve never had the pleasure of living in seasonless paradise (or hell, depending on your outlook), time passes crazy fast with no external markers of the obvious variety. And, for those of you who are still stuck in your 20s, time accelerates (or seems to) with each passing decade, something you [...]
There’s a vision you have on the outside of the thing you want. That vision features you, well-lit and peaceful, in the perfect clothing, with perfect teeth and perfect health, enjoying your perfect Perfection as you achieve that thing before a perfectly adoring audience. The clothing varies, depending on the pursuit of the visionary, and [...]
12 days into this c#@ksucker and I’m finding as many things derailed as on-track. As always, there are multiple reasons behind the disconnect between intention and fruition. First, there is the reality that for whatever reason, most of us overestimate what we can get done in a day, and I’m no miraculous exception to that [...]
