Dear Internet Diary,
Not much has been happening lately. The leaves are falling all at once, now… I have been raking them into piles over the garden beds. I have been feeling sick from a fibromyalgia flare-up for the last 3 days. This makes me want to throw things.
I have been thinking [...]
Yesterday I was walking home after work and enjoying being out in the early evening. I took photos with my phone because I wanted to be able to remember my walk home on Election Day. The clouds and the dusk were so portentous and beautiful looking. (I kind of want to incorporate [...]
It’s a quiet, cloudy Sunday, and thus a great day for ruminative logorrhea… but the uh… articulate, expressive, silver-tongued; persuasive, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, well-expressed, effective, lucid, vivid, graphic; smooth-tongued, glib ANTONYM inarticulate river of my blogorrific prose runs dry; I’m holding my breath and shutting down my mind, saving my cycles for Election Day…
Hold [...]
You mustn’t think me an Amazon whore if I link to their products in my posts, when I’m reviewing books I’ve read, etc. It is true, I am an affiliate through this site, and would love added income, but Richard also works for THEM now, so… it feels a little less weird.
If [...]
So look, I have been thinking about starting a web comic, but I have been feeling concerned about how my sense of humor is so weird that it’s probably not even funny to a lot of people, and I’ve sort of made my peace with that– and I also always end up thinking about XKCD [...]
I was helping a friend copy edit an application letter today, and we got in a discussion about how boring “sincerely” is as a complimentary closing. One often has to use sincerely, but when you don’t want to, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what else to write.
I compiled a list, for your reference [...]
I just learned about the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and read her poem “Renascence”.
Here’s an excerpt:
“…The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I ’most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
I screamed, and—lo!—Infinity
Came down and settled over me;
Forced back my scream into [...]
I used to like to write extremely weird and silly rhyming poems when I was in my early 20s… Years ago, my best friend Jen printed out a collection of poems I e-mailed her throughout 1999, which I wrote while I was bored in the library at the U of Washington, waiting between classes. [...]
Here’s a poem I wrote today… (I don’t remember the last time I wrote a poem).
Bee Hospice
Oh look, he says
I stop and turn around
He sets the grocery bags down
Is it dead? I ask, squatting
I poke it gently, with my thumbnail
It is not brittle
Maybe it is still alive
Not even an antenna moves
I pick a soft [...]
Today I had that first transcendent bike ride of summer where the air slips over your face and arms like cream, and turbulent eddies behind your head jiggle your hair back and forth as it pokes out of your helmet…
It’s 67 degrees right now. I didn’t wear a bra, or socks, or a bike [...]