“Are you coming down into The Pit?”

Why, yes – yes, I am.  Thank you for asking, but you know me – I don’t really need an invitation to wallow in a good ol’ Pit.  Pretty good at just jumpin’ in with both feet, all on my own, no invite necessary. It’s just – there’s this space, you see.  This VAST SPACE [...]

Beware the Ides of April

Thoughts I’m having: 1.  Is it too late in life to go on the lam?  Perhaps change my name to Loretta and get a job waiting tables in a seaside cantina? 2.  I think I ate a bug while running around the park just now.  

It’s Not Chicken

Um….if I tell you something, will you promise not to judge me?  Or at least, only judge me silently, in your mind, while smiling and giving me ice cream?  Cuz, uhhh…you know that place down the street?  Yeah, That Place.  That Place that has That Thing.  Well, last night?  Last night I went there and [...]

The Air Out There

Smells funny to me.  When MYH comes in from work, I can smell the outside air on him, and it smells weird.  Hard to describe, kind of like…wet trees.  But trees wet with water from a pond, a sludgy millpond.  Not a whiff of ocean (of course).  Just weird dead moist weeds smell.   Um. [...]

Whitman Sampler of MY BRAIN

1.  Do people truly care about what’s on the hot lunch menu at Sidwell Friends?  Really?  HEY!  TEACHAH!  LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE! 2.  I hate finding a big ol’ ‘NO’ in my email inbox on a Monday,  Monday NOes are like a little stumpy toothless man crouched in the corner, shaking his jowls at me [...]

The Opposite Of Crap

I must first tip my hat to the marvelous jen, from whom I have stolen this post’s title.  Yes.  I am a stealing stealer who steals.   Onward. See the thing is, some of us were raised, nay – marinated with a certain type of how shall I say, bandwagonism, 0r joining in the choir-ness, [...]

Aloha, First Semester…

‘Tis done.  The deed.  The many deeds, really, or as we call them in grad school, the “PAPERS.”   I speak to you from my hibernation hole, whence I shall not stir until — well, maybe until this afternoon, when I have an appointment to keep.  Or not really so much an appointment, as a [...]

Today, I Am Extra Old

One year extra old, to be exact. Just had a lovely dinner at a great cafe in our ‘hood. Hic. I must now lower myself gently to the floor, where I will lie flat, unzip my pants, and allow my birthday tummy to rise like a loaf of bread in a proofing box. Hic.

The Relief Map That Was Once My Face

Seriously.  The Era of Zits maintains its totalitarian regime and reigns supreme and unfettered by such things as benzoyl peroxide facial wash. Sigh. Oh well.   I suppose this is the price I pay for having an acne-free adolescence. On the upside, I can see parts of South America on my lower left chin area. [...]

My Life Is A Movie For Crickets

Okay.  I will now tell you something about myself which may change the way you think of me.  Unless you already think of me as a dillhole; then not so much a change for you, perhaps more like moving (promoting?) your thinking of me into douchbaggy territory.   Sometimes, even when I am alone, and [...]