The holidays are upon us, and I’m having mixed feelings about them.
I come from a very small family, just my parents, me and my Grandma. When I grew older, my parents preferred to leave town to avoid the whole Holiday Stress Mess, and I usually spent the holidays with my Grandma or friends. And this […]

When I was about 10, my parents and I were visiting my grandfather in San Jose, CA. While browsing the local newspaper, my mom found an add to come see a demonstration of these horses called Peruvian Pasos. My mom was intrigued by the description of these gentle horses with the smoothest riding gait imaginable, […]

 
I told Lins that I was too tired to do a proper post tonight. “You’ve gotta post something!!!” she exclaimed in a worried, high-pitch voice. This is me in my single days. See those sweet, adorable kittens? They grew up and started pottying in inappropriate places and chattering so much that no one can get […]

Everybody get out your little rakes!

This was at my Grandma’s house around 1980. The other night I had a dream that I was visiting my Grandma at her nursing home, and I held her hands and looked into her smiling face. I started bawling, squeezing her always chilly hands in mine; they were so small, […]

I’m going to write more about this later, but I recently learned the following about my ancestors:
1) I’m related to Hercules
2) My great-great-great-etc grandfather had 14 wives…
3) …one of which he rescued from a funeral pyre
4) Arkansas has been the locale of choice of many ancestors for generations
I’ll let you ponder that.

We have driven just over 1300 miles so far on what will be known as The Great Road Trip of ‘07. I shouldn’t be able to post an entry today because we were supposed to be camping at Lopez Lake in Arroyo Grande right now. This didn’t happen. Here’s the story:
We were both very excited […]

I dropped off my uncouthheathen and her heterosexual walking life partner off at Bellevue Community College this morning so they could start their Breast Cancer 3-Day Journey. I dropped them off early, as in we got up at 4:30 this morning and I drove them across I-90 (my first go of it, by the way, […]

I am turning 30 in a few days, so I’ve been reflecting on what this milestone represents in my life. There are two ways I can look at it: a) I can ignore it, passing it off as another insignificant year passing, or b) I can stop ignoring my natural tendency to over analyze everything […]

Dear Jens,
It was one year ago tonight that you died. You were jogging through Discovery Park and you collapsed with a heart attack. The people walking behind you said that you were walking one minute and on the ground the next; they suspect you didn’t know what hit you. I hope they’re right.
I was at […]