Navel Gazing (and I Don't Mean Oranges)

  • Curses

    I recorded myself for the accent vlog that everybody’s doing these days (lemming!  lemming!  find me a cliff of of which I may fling myself!), but now I can’t find the cord that…

  • Tune Up

    Ah, bein’ old. My old thyroid thing is acting up.  The diagnosis was just within the last year, so it makes sense that it takes time to normalize things.  It also makes sense…

  • Nine One One, One One

    Every single remembrance of nine eleven that I have ever read, I swear, begins with a description of the sky.  Clear.  Blue.  Perfect.  Cloudless.  Cerulean.  We expected some kind of warning.  Mother Nature’s failure…

  • Idyll Interrupted

    On July 15, the day after that last post, I took the boys on another amazing bike ride.  We waved at train conductors, truck drivers, and shipmates, and I marveled at how cool…

  • Seven Qualities I Want

    I have been inspired by two favorite bloggers today: magic cookie and R.  I’ll answer magic cookie’s question first, and maybe steal R’s idea tomorrow, because I like them both, and it makes…