Monday Noneday
Today finds me struggling to wake up for work after a grueling weekend (my organization put on an Earth Day event on Saturday that takes up a LOT of energy). Next weekend, my organization is running a garage sale on Saturday and Sunday, which requires a lot of heavy lifting and hauling and moving of […]
Story Cubes
Back at Christmas, I found a package under the tree for me from the Catbird that was the approximate size and shape of a deck of cards. When I picked it up, however, it was clear that it wasn’t a deck of cards. This felt a little heavier. Denser. And when I picked it up, […]
Monday Musing: Delayed Reaction Edition
Hidey-ho, folks, hope you’re all well. After enduring a week of cold, rain, and snow, the sun came out on Saturday afternoon, and it was positively balmy yesterday, mid-sixties and sunny. Daffodils are sprouting (though not quite flowering–yet), spring peepers are getting louder in the wetlands, swallows and kestrels are turning up on the telephone […]
The Reading List, 2017 (Part I)
Hey, ho, it’s the first post of April, and that means it’s time for the Quarterly Reading Report! I feel like I had a really slow reading period this year so far. That can be attributed to watching too much hockey, playing too much Grand Theft Auto, and actually doing some writing. The Bruins’ season […]
Chuck Palahniuk and Emma Watson’s Breasts
Hoo boy, that got your attention, didn’t it? While Googling for images that would go with my spring break post from a couple of weeks back, I kept running across a recurring image: tucked in amongst the images of bodies packed on the beach, sea to shore, and bodies packed in bars, wall to wall, […]
Three Feet
That’s what fell on our house last week. Three feet. It was kind of a lot. This is the Catbird on Wednesday afternoon, when the snow had (mostly) stopped. Granted, she’s short (5′ 3″, I think). The car she is standing next to is a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It’s just about six feet tall–when it […]
Spring Break
When I wasin college, spring break was Fort Lauderdale, maybe Daytona. That was where everyone wanted to go, to get away from the grind of campus and the pressure of mid-terms, papers and projects. All anyone wanted was a few days to relax in the sun, kick back for a few days, enjoy the ocean […]
Weekend Update: Themeless Edition
Greetings! Hoping this Monday morning (or whatever time it is wherever you are) finds you well. I find myself this fine Monday with no cohesive post, and no ‘seemingly random thoughts that are actually part of a theme’ kind of thing happening today, so here are some truly random thoughts. –The RiP and the WiP […]
Monday Musing: Is it on, or off?
I have strange thoughts that come to me seemingly at random. In this way, I suspect I’m not all that unusual; most people, I suspect, have oddball, random thoughts about the world around them. Hell, some people make themselves a nice living off of these things: Once in a while, I wake up with these […]
Reviewing the List
File this under “cleaning up things from last year.” It’s not necessarily the last in this category (still have to do that one about resolution that was kicking in my brain from last December or so, but that one’s going to have to wait a bit), but it’s the one I feel capable of tackling. […]