one box at a time

It's such a challenge boxing up everything. You'd think as many times as I've moved that I'd have a great system. But it's always one box at a time. Sifting through, sorting each item, trying to decide if I really need to hang onto beads from a pride parade five years ago or finally let …

I don't really feel like I know anything anymore. For so much of my life I've thought that I've known people, known what they've wanted, known what they've felt. I have been foolish and arrogant. I'm not comfortable feeling like I am clueless. In fact, it has shaken my whole belief system. It's been more …

thoughts for the day

I can't be patriotic if it means cheering for the death of others no matter what their crime. I can't be patriotic if I can't speak my own mind. I can't be patriotic if it means I can't have my own opinion. Someone else tells me I can't be patriotic because I am a woman …

bravery

I was watching Tea with Mussolini yesterday. I'd never seen it before. There was this scene where Judi Dench's character throws herself in front of the wall of the tower to save the Tuscan beauty inside and in front of the menacing looking German soldier pointing his Lugar. I was sure she'd be shot....mostly because …

Melly got me a fly fishing class for me birthday and I went to it Saturday morning. I learned how to cast and hook. I like it as a sport because it seems so much more like art. It takes skill and finess just to cast. Asked me later if I still like it after …