Benediction –Stanley Kunitz From The Collected Poems God banish from your house The fly, the roach, the mouse That riots in the walls Until the plaster falls; Admonish from your door The hypocrite and liar; No shy, soft, tigrish fear…
Happy Birthday!
To faebouche, a lovely and talented lady who we haven’t seen in person in far too long! Current Mood: 🙂cheerful
Aw, poor widdle terrorist!
I know you’re all torn up to hear that Eric Rudolph is miserable in prison. “Using solitary confinement, Supermax is designed to inflict as much misery and pain as is constitutionally permissible,” he wrote in a letter. No, really? That’s…
Will there be a cure?
I responded to a post in a friend’s LiveJournal, in which she talked about a friend of hers who has just been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. Her friend was very upset that my friend didn’t believe there is a…
Finally, home & cat stuff
The last installment of the update—home stuff Sam and I are adjusting to sleeping at a new height. Yes—height. I’ve lusted after a captain’s bed for some time, because of the storage possibilities and how much more walker/wheelchair friendly our…
Gaming & Podcasting & TV, oh my!
Sam has started another podcast in cahoots with Bill Walton. This one, Square One, is for completely new gamers. Check it out – they’ve done a good job. I’m in one episode, though I don’t think that one’s up yet.…
Reading
I just finished reading Born in Death by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts). It’s the latest in the Eve Dallas series and a good read. I took a break from The Star Scroll, part of Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince series, to…
School Update
School is going along fine. In fact, another semester is almost done for me, and Katie’s almost at the end of her semester, too. She’s kicking ass and taking names. Now that she’s settled academically, she’s stretching out into some…
Quote of the Day: May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. —May Sarton I do at least a dozen silly things every day, thanks in part to fibro fog. The sooner I let go of my anger…
Poetry: Things You Didn’t Put On Your Resume
Things You Didn’t Put On Your Resume –Joyce Sutphen How often you got up in the middle of the night when one of your children had a bad dream, and sometimes you woke because you thought you heard a cry…