To my boyfriend: I haven’t seen you awake in over a week. We’ve talked on the phone a few times a day – which reminds me of the beginning of our courtship (when we were long distance), a very sweet time. But otherwise our contact has been reduced to fumbling nighttime-darkness hellos and quit…
The B**ch Goddess
My fourth cup of tea is whistling away in the kettle, my second load of laundry is tumbling lazily in the dryer, the heat is rumbling gently through the vents for the first time of the season, and my cat is snoozing in my lap with her legs wrapped around my fingers (well they were,…
Gillian’s Top Five
I’m stealing a leaf from Bob’s book (see Bob’s Top Five here) and doing a list. In honor of this lovely, lazy Saturday morning . . . Gillian’s Top Five Saturday Morning Cartoons 1. Voltron Ahh, I wanted to be the pink one. She was blond, she wore her hair in braids, but…
Cake or Death?
This morning when my coworker walked the mail to the mailbox, she found a beautiful female deer dying in our grass. It must have been hit by a car on the nearby highway – there was no visible blood or wound, but she was thrashing and trying to get up. My instinct was to stroke her head and…
Take Me Out Back
. . . and shoot me. Is this week over yet?? In two days I have trained a new employee, handled an employee’s fender bender (in a company car, sooo much paperwork), did all my coworker’s sales orders and mine, helped an employee with her taxes, drove a stranger to the dentist (his car broke down and I saw…