Serenity… an expedition

But I think  I’d have to somehow arrange to die in Sweden
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Also, it ain’t cheap being green, even when you are dead. Though that’s not really true, either – our carcasses are fairly perfectly designed to give back to the earth that we live off of when we are dead. It’s the rites and [...]

You know those people – they say they get up before dawn, grab their coffee and then sit down and clatter out thousands of words before the morning paper even hits the door?
  Yeah, that’s not me. I so want it to be but I am not, I have discovered, an early morning writer. [...]

This is not a philosophical question. Or, not entirely, anyway. And yes, as usual this rumination is really about me, not you (unless you want it to be).

No, it’s more the question I’ve been asking myself lately as I sit here looking at the blank screen day after day, realizing I feel I have [...]

I started classes again this week, after a two week holiday break. So far (for the semester) so good.
I have, right now, a 4.0 average and I don’t see that changing much as time goes on. Well, until I hit algebra, that is, maybe.
The work is pretty easy as this is the first [...]

For some reason it feels incomplete – and almost rude – to make major (to me) decisions armed only with a Blackberry. Or, rather, to attempt to express the substance of them with an itty bitty keyboard and a 1 1/2 inch screen.
Even so, I believe I have come to a point where one [...]

Where? I guess the easiest – if not exactly informative – answer is… I’ll know when I get there.
It seems – feels – like lots will start happening next week, that there will be an ending to the sense of being in stasis that has been, if not my life (truth, there), then at [...]

English is a funny language. So many words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings – that’s gotta be pretty annoying for English language learners, I imagine. Although, from what I understand, Manderin Chinese is much worse (or, rather, much more difficult) to learn.
When I was young I’d read [...]

It looks dreadful. Little Orphan Annie after a rainstorm.
All this talk lately about black women’s hair and nappy vs natural and so on (which talk both BA and Sylvia have dealt with wonderfully) finally gave me the impetus to try to do something, anything, with mine.
I had to go out almost immediately I was done [...]

Just a few days after my momentous decision to just concentrate on writing and let everything else go for the moment, I’ve gone and changed my mind.
With a little juggling of time and duties, and a bit less sleep, I can do both and be happy doing it. Mind you, hearing from my partner in [...]

Every spare moment, these days, I seem to have my nose in a book. No hardship, that, I love to read, but these days it too is almost like work.
My itty bitty library across the street is coming in so handy. They have a very limited selection there, but with being able to order in [...]