I got a call from a friend yesterday, chiding me on my lack of posting.  All I could say was, "Yeah - John’s been riding me about that too."  What can I say?  It’s been hot and humid, I’ve been unwell, and while I’m back pretty close to normal, I’m still not 100%.  The heat, [...]

… my mom, I mean. And boy, do I love to read her voice again (even though we talk on the phone several times a week - you can only revisit those conversations in your mind - you can’t go back and re-read them and find new and wonderful things, because memories tend to fade.  [...]

Mom and I were talking about "our" words a while back.  It’s something Elizabeth Gilbert talks about in Eat Pray Love - if I recall correctly, she has a friend who believes that every city and every person has a word that describes them or sums them up.  It’s "their" word.  Mom asked me what [...]

Female movie reviewers.
I admit to a certain fondness for reading movie reviews, especially for movies I may never see.  I’m an unabashed fan of Roger Ebert’s, and generally appreciate his insights.  That being said, however, I predicted that his first words on the "Sex and the City" movie would be something to the effect of, [...]

Ever have someone who articulates things you have been thinking about forever?  Ever have someone who does this on a fairly regular basis in an incredibly eloquent way that puts your own thoughts on the subject to shame at the same time as you sigh with relief and say to yourself, “Ahhh - yes.  Exactly.”?
Marissa Lingen [...]

Okay - after a really cold March, April arrives and BLAM - it’s 74 freakin’ degrees.
Don’t get me wrong - it’s a beautiful evening, but for purposes of running?  Going from the high 30’s to the mid 70’s makes for some insta-fatigue.  But anyway, I was going to tell you about how I channeled Marie [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I had been watching a lot of Dog Whisperer.  I always hate it when I jump on a bandwagon - I tend to object on principle to buying wholesale into someone else’s world-view.  I also get a little irritated with the people who breathlessly gasp about Cesar Millan’s [...]

I listened to my new running playlist this morning on the way in to work, and realized another thing about it (and playlists like it in the past).
I start my runs (in general) with the dark, the sarcastic, the angry.  The first three songs on this new playlist are each, in their own way, a solitary middle [...]

Fear not - this isn’t going to be one of those posts that wafts about the idea of whether knitting is an “art” or a “craft” and what that particular semantic exercise means in terms of intrinsic or perceived value of the pursuit or of the finished object, the role of gender differential in determination of worth, [...]

Cici was kind enough to want to know what randomness I could come up with in eight easy bites.  Despite promising myself no memes, I realized I had several not-quite blog posts rambling around in my head, as well as some responses to stuff I had read, so I figured I’d come up with eight of [...]