Month: January 2011

In with the New?

When I greeted this new year with the hope of positive changes, I didn’t mean I wanted to get rid of all the stuff I liked. Jeez. I miss my baby and her parents, and my familiar house and toys. I never see my friends when I’m at home, but I miss knowing I can. I miss having bits of free time. On the bright side, I’m working at what I wanted to be working […]

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Eve of Destruction

I came home yesterday afternoon and had a major meltdown: How can I pack up everything for my move in only hours? Where do I begin? But worse, as I spun with decisions, my spirits bottomed: I don’t want to go. Don’t make me go. I don’t want to leave here. Please let me stay. I don’t know who I was talking to. No one was listening, which was just as well. Somehow I found […]

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One One One-One

Happy New Year 2011 from Sacramento, California, where I am finishing reading Rat, a dark novel that Jill gave me way back, and in the next room my friend is watching TV and striding away on his the NordicTrak, and I’m also starting to read Jumping Fire by Murry A. Taylor, which my friend recommended, and from the TV I can hear a documentary about 60s folk music, and find myself singing along, Not a […]

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