Dosing
I’m fighting it hard today, the smothering despair simultaneously manufactured and feared by my own mind. Yesterday, I couldn’t fight. With the slow approach of rain, my inner world drained of color,...
View ArticleI Am Not an Abomination, and Neither Are You
When I was a girl, I believed I was fundamentally wrong. The exact term that rings in my memory is “an abomination to God.” An abomination. I didn’t have any context for that word outside of the...
View ArticleVillage Appreciation Day
Elementary schools are set up a little differently here in Italy than they are in the U.S. For one thing, kids here typically go to school six days a week but only in the mornings. This allows families...
View ArticleA Daily Dose of Beauty ~ September 2010
September 1st – Listening to our new little reader entertain her sister with a Seuss classic. September 2nd – Getting treated to an exclusive performance of The Best Circus Show EVER!!! with the...
View ArticleAu Revoir
Dear husband, I’m enmeshed in the seventh traffic snarl of the morning, though this one seems to be more of a Gordian Knot. No one has moved for the duration of my Vampire Weekend album, and several...
View ArticleInventory
Life has felt off lately. It’s not that I’m having trouble adjusting to work but rather that I’m having trouble fitting Everything Else around the shaded blocks on my calendar. Recharge time has...
View ArticleYear of Plenty
I don’t know how to describe this year. I keep trying to find words and coming up just short of unintelligible emo lyrics croaked over a wailing guitar. I realize that after the upheaval of 2007, this...
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