My friend Kim is in town for several weeks. It’s been wonderful spending time with her. She’s a kindred spirit, that one, a lover of true crime and travel bug who actually had the gumption to finish the PhD. Like yours truly, Kim is a few parts nerd. She decorates for Halloween starting on Labor [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Because a blogger’s got to have her fantasies
07.10.08 –
Statcounter is a little evil and on occasion it plays tricks with my mind. I allow it, of course. It’s probably more appropriate to say I indulge it, much as I do my fantasies about Nutella and those men in the box under my bed. Every so often, when I can see from where someone [...]
With or Without You
07.08.08 –
I consider my ability to forgive to be an affliction. Like halitosis. Dengue fever. It’s the result of years of screwing up, of acknowledging my vast weaknesses, and not just those involving Pinot or Diet Coke. We all fail; we all fall short. We all don’t respond when we should, when the need is stated. [...]