The first time I stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon, my response was, “Yep. That’s big.” Then I promptly slipped on some ice and wrenched my knee. I spent the rest of that brief visit sitting down, slowly doling out peanuts to the ravens. I remember the ravens in a fair amount of …
Category Archive: Navel Gazing
Dec 01 2010
Catch-Up
Oh. Hi. Let’s just go through a few of the highlights since my last blog post, shall we? Let’s start with that day. Sunday Having spent the last three weeks in the middle of fall housecleaning, the past two while our main staircase is being finished, I have about an hour’s more work to do …
Sep 20 2010
Weird
“Did you know that there are people who don’t hold hands when they sleep?” “Really? Weird.” “I know. What’s up with that?” “Or maybe we’re weird.” “Don’t care.” “Maybe they’ll think we’re so weird they’ll ostracize us, drive us out of society.” “Still don’t care. I’d rather hold your hand.” “Okay, that’s pretty weird. But …
Dec 12 2009
Going Emo
You were warned. Some observations from spending far too much time with myself: Competence seems like a pretty cool, objective thing on which to base your self-image…right up to the point where you can’t do what you’ve been doing. Then it all just sort of falls apart. What was the last thing you accomplished? How …
Aug 01 2009
Vacation Notes
I’m sitting in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon, avoiding the sun and awaiting a wedding. I have one of those underestimating-sun-exposure-due-to-clouds-and-trees sunburns, but life is good otherwise. I’ve made it past the TSA with a minor who isn’t mine and has pins in her arm hidden under a cast. Also with a bottle of …
Mar 22 2009
Painful Phone Calls
One of the hardest parts about running a talk radio show at 9 a.m. on a Sunday morning is getting listeners to talk back. If this were a weekday, people would be mostly at work, already caffeinated. If this were a Saturday, slightly more people would be awake, somewhat fewer people would be at church …
Feb 02 2009
Taking Off the Act
Thursday morning, my iPod was speaking to me. In a half hour walk to work, three songs all talking about the same subject–acting. Is there anybody in there in this self-inflicted tomb?If you peel away the layers, is there someone in this room? Of course, they were all talking about it because I was already …
Dec 30 2008
Rarefied Air
Every once in a while, something comes along to remind me what an atypical life I’ve built for myself. This time it was someone reacting skeptically to PalMD’s statement that he worries every day about balancing work and parenting, ’cause, you know, guys don’t really do that. Um, what? I wanted, as usual when confronting …
Dec 22 2008
Explanation Please
I recently overheard an exchange that boiled down to a woman telling a man who was obviously quite close to her, “Oh, the work you do is so important and wonderful, but it’s too complicated for me. I just couldn’t understand it if I tried.” I wanted to cry. For him. Her I wanted to …
Dec 15 2008
Sam & Max Rules
A bit more than a decade ago, my husband and I played a bunch of LucasArts adventure games. Remember, this was pre-Episode One. Pre-Grim Fandango not being released for Macs for that matter. LucasArts was still okay then. In fact, they were pretty cool. Sure, the Indiana Jones game was kinda dull, but Day of …
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