writing and lighting my way

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.” – William Faulkner

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  • You know what I was not meant to have? Control. Self-, others-, situational-, political-, government-, project-, subordinate-. None of it. I am involuntarily exerting control over my words, even as I type them. I used to be able to write freely, flowingly, honestly, carelessly. Not in an “I-don’t-care-about-others” kind of…

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  • >Shock Cultural

    >Fairly certain that the grammar in that title is Spanglish, at best.  It is Sunday of the first full weekend I have been home, and…

  • >Sobreviviendo San Miguel / Surviving San Miguel

    >i have just returned from having lived in san miguel de allende, guanajuato, mexico, since june 27th, 2004.  talk about culture shock.  i had an…

  • >El Limerick y La Cucaracha

    >Good lord at staying out toda la noche.  But I was not the only one, ¡Gracias a Dios!  Sarah got home at 0800 hours and…

  • >Refrigerator Survey Jan 2004

    >January 30, 2004 I just surveyed the contents of my refrigerator/freezer, and I came up with this: in the bottom half — one bag of…

● About Me

I’m Christi, and I have been writing, well, since I learned to write as a little girl. I learned in my 40’s that writing saves lives and sanity, and that is exactly why I am still here.

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