My family and I started making annual trips to Conneaut Lake in 2000. We had been there many times before, but that year it was determined (by some matriarchal figures, I don’t know, I wasn’t invited to the tribunal, I just show up when they tell me to) that as many of us would gather [...]
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There are times, usually when I’m doing something domestic, like cooking or baking, or lamenting my perpetually messy and dusty house, when I get a twinge of wanting to devote myself to wifey things. This gets even more perverted when I think about how much I would like to micro-manage our food; have a garden, [...] I sat down at my desk last Wednesday morning, tired, sore, and frazzled from sleeping through my alarm and having to rush out the door. The familiar sounds of my daily life made their way back into my brain and I became kind of sad. I was glad to be home, as I always am, [...] The Penguins lost last night, ending the season on a bit of a whimper and sending Montreal on further toward their 8 billionth Stanley Cup. We opted not to watch the game until the bitter end when the score flipped over to 5-2 in the middle of the third period. It was getting late and [...] My poor kiddo was sick over the weekend. Indeed, his ailments on Mother’s Day got a little worse before they got better. He doesn’t have asthma, but his lungs seem to be especially prone to congestion and nastiness whenever he gets a cold. Saturday he seemed to be sniffling more than usual (we’re all kind of [...] That’s me at my desk. I’ve been in this position most of the day because I have this really annoying stomachache. So what’s been going on with me? Eh, a lot and not much, know what I mean? I’ve been really busy at work, aside from being doubled over and groaning. The baby had his first [...] I seem to go through really sensitive or empathic periods when stuff that other people are experiencing really hits me in the gut and I feel as though I’m right in it with them. I don’t know if I’m actually in one of those periods right now, or if the reality of the situation is just [...] I don’t know what I think about fate and powers greater than us and whatnot. I know that the universe is not something that I can comprehend but that sometimes it seems to work for a minute or two. With me trying desperately to get out of the emotional k-hole that I had been in, the [...] It began to snow. “Listen – that soft, tinkling sound – like tiny, crispy shards of glass shattering on the snow.” “You know what it is?” “What?” “That sound…It’s the STATIC being discharged by each snowflake because the air is so dry.” – Blankets One night, a few weeks ago, when the snow was still above my knees, I walked to [...] Hello, from the paralyzed tundra formerly known as Pittsburgh. I won’t bore you with yet another series of pictures of people standing waist-deep in snow, because, really, there’s no new ground to break there. It’s snow. It’s white. There’s a lot of it. I will insert a little slideshow that you can view or not [...]  |
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