storyteller and all-around creative distraction
I pay $45 a month for my landline phone so that telemarketers can harass me. Telemarketers never call my cell phone. My family only ever calls me on my cell phone. So I hardly ever answer the house phone because I know there’s a 99% …
We bought a new car last month – well, certified used actually, but it’s only a year old. 22,000 miles on it. This is our attempt to maybe rise above, take a shot at that good ol’ American dream or whatever. You know, it’s what …
I figured I’d start my own flickr account. Because everybody else is doing it. And if everybody else jumped off a bridge, well, you know… I’ll have one of those cool flash slideshow links on the side bar too, as soon as I can get …
So it seems about time I make my monthly appearance here. You know, often enough that all three of my readers don’t think I’m dead, but not often enough to be of any real substance. Maybe it has to do with being pregnant, because I …
You’re Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July …
I ran across this blog via pesky’apostrophe this morning. This woman, Molly, is very brave to post the detailed instructions to a DIY D&C abortion for the women of South Dakota who are no longer able to get a safe and legal abortion in their …
“Life expectancy is probably the single most effective index of quality of life: If you’re dead, you’re probably not having a good time.” – Carl Sagan So simple it’s hilarious! That was the late Carl Sagan our advancements in quality of life during the 20th …
Jimmy’s favorite new hobby lately is poking around on the google video site. Some of this stuff is just so funny. I had to share this one, Bush singing a love song – really you just have to see it for yourself. I don’t know …
I’m having a baby boy. I knew it even before the ultrasound. I think I knew it from about the time we decided on our girl’s name. Emily came so quickly to us, so easily, I knew we’d better agree on some boy names because …
I feel like I finally have my mind back again these past couple of weeks. I’m working on a new story, revising old ones. I’m slowly starting to write in this blog again. This is the happy period of pregnancy they tell me, the second …