Posts Tagged: author

Just to Brighten up Your Day

posted on 07/24/2008

Don’t worry, this blog is not about to become another myspace page, where I just cut and paste things that I find amusing. It’s not the point of this, despite the fact that most of ‘youtube’ is WAY more interesting than I am. That said, I found this on my friend Cindy’s blog and I […]

These Dreams…

posted on 07/22/2008

Maybe it’s the hot weather or caffeine or something. I’m not usually one who has vivid dreams, especially involving cohesive plots, specific people or recognizable places. But I’ve been having some crazy ones lately. Like the one a few weeks ago where I helped a friend decorate her new house with the monsters and fixtures […]

Or it could be Asiago, I’m not sure

posted on 07/19/2008

I went to dinner with some friends last night, and a friend of mine – who is in Atlanta for the weekend from out of town – made me feel very special when he explained that he reads this blog regularly as one way of keeping in touch with me from afar. Awww…. how sweet. […]

Lesson #17: Money Talks, But Sometimes I Need a Translator

posted on 07/08/2008

Like most people, I’ve had money on the brain lately. Recession, gas prices, economic stimulus, housing market, job market… if I weren’t already meticulously evaluating my financial situation on my own (including, as the last blog indicates, calculating what I pay for the square footage in my storage unit), then the news outlets would still […]

Can I Rent a Storage Unit for Emotional Baggage?

posted on 07/01/2008

So one of our tasks for the upcoming holiday weekend is that MDH and I are planning to clean out some stuff we’ve had in storage since early in the year. We boxed up some clutter while our condo was on the market, and now it needs to come home so that we can save […]

Chisel, Stone and Frequent Flyer Miles

posted on 06/02/2008

… And we’re back. The blog has been on a hiatus for a month or so, partly because of my graduation and all the festivities surrounding it, and then because we took a trip to Ireland for nine days. It was my first time crossing the Atlantic since I backpacked through Europe 10 years ago […]

#54: Learn to sit, play, and trust…

posted on 04/30/2008

One thing I really love about gmail, aside from its other endlessly useful features, is the little rotating headline thingy — I’m sure the folks at google have an actual, technical name for it — above the inbox, which changes every time I check my mail. At first, I barely noticed its existence. And even […]

Lesson #12: Dare to Dream….

posted on 04/24/2008

…but don’t forget to set the alarm. Okay, it’s a little trite. I’ll admit it. You read, “Dare to Dream,” in the title, and immediately you get some psuedo-inspiring, extra-annoying WhitneyBetteMariah song creeping into your awareness, complete with violins and some vague, drippy chorus. You see the poster image of the hang-glider or the astronaut […]

Love, Life & Loss

posted on 04/22/2008

It would be impossible to write genuinely this week without first mentioning Sean. So I won’t even try. Sean Costello, a close family friend of ours and an unparalleled blues guitarist, died suddenly last week, to the dismay of all of us who knew him, and many who did not. This amazing young man, who […]

Lesson #28: Listen to your body, even when your body is an irrational idiot.

posted on 04/15/2008

For some unknown reason, my internal clock decided to go off this morning before 4:30 a.m. This seems to happen to me more and more these days — of course, never on those days when I need to be up early for something. It’s always on a day like today when I’ll be working until […]