year end

        The year is ending. Thus, it’s time for the lists. Everyone’s got lists of resolutions at year end. I’m not a fan of resolutions, mainly because I don’t take them seriously and would have forgotten them by the second week in January. So this year I’ve chosen to incorporate some lessons into my [...]

the others.

*Please read all “you(s)” as in the general you and not any specific people.
Starting right now in fact. I have decided to drop with effortless east anyone and anything toxic in my life. I have wasted too much time fulfilling expectations. No delving into the past and no dwelling on singular incidents. I have decided [...]

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People talk(ed) about us. About you and me, and how enduring ‘we’ are. We’ve seen changes in our lives and in the world. Ours is the kind of connection that leaves inedible marks on a soul and begs you to live it again and again. What they don’t know is that it’s simple and yet [...]

Madame Bovary, c’est moi*

” . . . and human language is like a cracked kettledrum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity.”
No book has given me or my life more meaning than Madame Bovary. I read it at [...]

alone-liness

I have a rash on my arm, one that I seem to be giving myself because I miss my family and friends. We read Dante’s Inferno in high school and Ms. Strauss made us write a paper on what our own version of [...]