I Should Have Been Born a Thoroughbred

I am one of those nervous nelly types who reacts physically to mental upsets.  I get a sore throat and diarrhea if my boyfriend and I have an argument.  Once I even threw up.  The consequence is that I have many activities to help with mental harmony.  I have a special grounding meditation.  I like [...]

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Ronrey

I’m not good at making new friends unless there is a context in which to meet someone.  I do fine meeting people when there is a reason for us to meet one another.  When there is no such framework, however, I suck.  I am more introverted than extroverted given the choice.  Consequently, when I’m not [...]

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America the Ugly

Milla’s dad informed me that a store I was looking for was in Longmont, Colorado.  Considering I have explored the south and the east of Boulder fairly well, and also considering Milla was spending the day with her dad, I decided to traipse on over to see if I could find the store and check [...]

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What I am Thankful For

Because I am a sap and it is traditional to do so, I have decided to make a non-inclusive list of things I am thankful for (in no particular order).
Milla
Boyfriend
Animals
Mom
Dad
Sister
Brother
Other relatives (I guess the previous could have been gathered in the catchall family.)
My nice housemate and her animals
Friends
My hairdresser
Sleep
Love
Warmth
Bunnies
Snuggling
Humor
Music
Down comforters and pillows
That Obama is [...]

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Possessive S’s

Improper use of the apostrophe for plurals bugs the hell out of me.  Except in narrow circumstances, one places an apostrophe before an s to denote possession.  If one is discussing more than one of something, the apostrophe goes after the s.  One does not place an apostrophe before the s to simply denote plurals.
No [...]

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Welcome Back, Dear

My mac died on Sunday.  It turns out the hard drive was bad.  The funny thing is, I was so pleased with mac over windows I did not realize some niggling things were the result of a bad hard drive.  Now I have a new hard drive and the niggles have gone away.  Mac is [...]

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Who Would Jesus Bomb?

I have seen this bumper sticker quite a lot. I saw it again tonight and kept ruminating on it, wondering about it, asking the same question, “Who would Jesus bomb?” Over and over, the answer that came to mind was everyone, if certain fundamentalist Christians have their way. Those asking this question [...]

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Let’s Eliminate Pure Med Spa

See my post on the Pure Med Spa bankruptcy here.
I am writing an article on Pure Med Spa.  For info, please click here.
Because I have received so many messages in response to this post, and since it seems not many of these commentators have read my later piece on the Pure Med Spa bankruptcy filing, [...]

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Thanksgiving Sonnet

Turgid turkeys, strained into rickety
wooden coffins, exit four-by-four from
a ten-ton hearse. Into the turkey mill:
mutilation, holocaust.
Perspiring hormones, Tom Turkey stares with
one cold eye at a crumbling chimney tower
belching death in putrid smoke, blackening
holiday skies. Annihilating light.
Bodies, bones. None remain unfrozen. With
elaborate precision he’s taken apart;
neck, gizzards tied in [...]

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My Post for Tooty

I adore my boyfriend.  I am so happy to be moving to New York with him.  I expected him to be recalcitrant at the idea of us living together, but he jumped on board immediately. He’s a good egg.

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Rootless

The thing about this blog is that when I started it, I was in ways a different person than I am now.  Interestingly enough to me, I had fewer changes foisted upon me this year requiring that I change, but my self-imposed external changes resulted in major internal changes, even greater than those that occurred [...]

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Isn’t She Lovely?

I have the most beautiful child in the world, and she is a genuinely sweet person.  I love her so very much.

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Thanks, Keith

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Portland the Hipster

It is just odd, this need for trend and flavor and aren’t we all tony, sipping our lattes, carrying our shopping baskets over an arm, wandering the aisles of the grocery store listening to live jazz.  I find it so bizarre.  Grocery stores have gone from little boxes with rows of shelves lit by small [...]

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Random Tidbits

I have been in Portland now for a week.  I head to Boulder on Monday.  I will be there for five weeks.  Then I return to Portland where Boyfriend and I will be packing for our trip to New York.  We get our truck on January 5.  We plan to pack up that day and [...]

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