Category: Random

>This is the word (non-word) my boyfriend always responds with when he is either still considering what his actual response will be or when he just does not want to deal with a response at the moment. He learned it from his cat, Phoenix.

>Where have I been? I wish I had taken the time to chronicle it all along the way. I have been enjoying summer with my wonderful boyfriend. I have been starting the most trying school year of my life (with one notable exception which was so all-around-bizarre that I have chosen not to take it…

> Ahhhh. Covetousness. I am experiencing it. Every time I go into Macy’s, I sit on this couch. I want it. I must have it. I feel strongly about it. It exemplifies everything I love. Lounging in comfort. Brightness. Easy-to-clean-ness. Conversation. Relationship. Community. Yes, this couch is all that. And more. I think that when…

> Is good. No, it’s great. I am having a lovely summer — a little travel, to different places, in new ways, with new people. I am America-bound and have no international travel opps on the horizon. And you know what? I’m okay with that. I think it’s a sign of a new contentment in…

>In the past several years, more than all the previous years combined, I have heard people talk about God’s perfect timing. At first, it sort of made me want to roll my eyes, but I decided that I would work to shed a little of the cynicism with which I had clothed myself for most…

> Since March, which, according to the date of my last entry here, I have been doing other things. Things other than what, you ask? Things other than writing and reading for pleasure. I have been traversing the path through graduate school. I have been teaching bilingual kindergarten. I have been being in love. I…

>I just ate Wheaties from a wine glass.

>I wonder if I will ever stop thinking that someone, someday, will want to read my life story? I hope not. Because that would be some kind of permission to stop recording it. Maybe I am just writing all this stuff to make sure, one day, that I remember my life! If I am to…

>This, as I pretty much expected, is a full-blown home. Complete with laundry room and waterfront deck. I think there is part of some river zipping through the front/back yard. Sleep was pretty much lovely last night. I woke a few times, but I think it was more toward the time my body thought I…

>A year ago, I was in China. The country. Amazing. Today, I am eating homemade whole wheat pancakes. A year ago I was looking ahead to a few weeks of discovery, family and unfamiliar. Today, I am looking ahead to a week of discovery, family and unfamiliar. This year, it is all about quality time…