Namaste Blog Family Winter is killing me. I hate when people complain about the weather, so pardon this paragraph. But for real. The weather man reckons that the temperature is ten degrees lower than usual for this time of year. The first day of spring is this week, and there's still patches of snow around here and there. Over the weekend I escaped to the country to celebrate one of my niece's birthday. She turned the big three this year....
Namaste lovers of syllable land My favorite words to read hurt. Note "to read". I can never handle anything harsh being spoken, verbal attacks and what not. Humans spatting. I value language too highly for that. However, I love when I read something that makes me uncomfortable. When I can look at words on a page, artfully presented, in a way that makes my stomach spasm in a concerning way and my tongue push against the backs of my front teeth....
I have dipped to Connecticut for some word banging this weekend. After a week with no coffee, my natural energy levels are balancing out and I lost the shakes a few days ago. Novel is coming along nicely still. Piecing paragraphs and putting sentences together. My healthy diet booted my cold fairly quickly and I'm starting to feel the benefits brought on by my annual detox. Perhaps this year we'll extend beyond January... Peanut experienced her...
I brought Lily Peanut to my parents' house this weekend. Needless to say, seeing my little girl imported from Australia running around the yard where I grew up was beyond surreal. I wanted Henry to be there, it made me cry a bit. It also made me see how well trained my little girl is. Peanut ran around acres of fence-less green without me ever removing a leash from my overnight bag. Later this week, when we move on Thursday, she's going to...
I went to the country for the weekend. I've been pretty cranky for a few reasons. After working 800 hours last week, I haven't quite slept enough yet. I'm planning for the puppies to get on an airplane in a few weeks, and I still don't know where I'm going to live. Then there are these words everywhere. Short story words, novel words, poetry book words. Somehow I need to sort them. In the midst of all this Blah. I spent a fair amount of the...