that’s how long it’s been since i’ve posted anything. seventeen weeks. that’s a LONG time. i’m sorry to have been so absent. i haven’t had anything new to say. i spent much of march and april fighting a hellacious and tenacious sinus infection. it was so severe it caused significant bouts of vomiting. i was… Continue reading seventeen weeks, two days
the unreliable narrator
i don’t know how old i was when i learned i had cerebral palsy. i suspect it was when i was ten, when i had to have the third of six surgeries… the first one i was old enough to remember. i had a navel hernia — something to do with the abdominal wall and… Continue reading the unreliable narrator
because one reading challenge isn’t enough
okay. so i’m gonna try my hand at this year’s pop sugar reading challenge. i spent the morning at brio’s with a couple of friends chewing over the list and the books on my to-be-read shelves and have come up with this list: one. a book becoming a movie in ‘nineteen. the rosie project by… Continue reading because one reading challenge isn’t enough
random quarter
one. three things i like about myself: intelligence, compassion, generosity. two. three things i dislike about myself: insecurity, temper, laziness. three. the happiest person i know: michelle. four. the two people i like and respect the most and why: aurora and cynthia because they are like sunshine. five. i am: a child of god, one… Continue reading random quarter
the (extremely belated) fall film challenge update: november
once again, i lost my film-viewing mojo. i worked on a bonus list but didn’t post it because i didn’t love it. i actually watched four films, not three, but damned if i can remember what the third one was, and of course i didn’t log them in the facebook group, so… one. sing. yall,… Continue reading the (extremely belated) fall film challenge update: november
never forget
my munkle served in the navy. so did his brother, my great uncle joe. my mom told me once that joe served with patton and marched with him in germany. i hope i’m remembering that right. i like thinking of it. my uncle chris served in the navy, too. i will never forget the time… Continue reading never forget
fall film challenge update: october
one. haunted mansion. this was not a film i’d selected. i’d spent an evening with my younger brother, his children, his wife, her sister and niece. we had an outdoor movie night, swimming and soaking in a hot tub. the ghosts make this movie. eddie murphy does NOT. family night at my brother’s house… it… Continue reading fall film challenge update: october
the fall film challenge: bonus round
if you have completed the regular round of the fall film challenge, you are eligible to compete in the bonus round. choose one film for each of the following actors: kevin bacon sean bean jim beaver halle berry emily blunt alison brie john candy peter coyote russell crowe peter finch megan fox michael j. fox… Continue reading the fall film challenge: bonus round
a supplement to the second question
yall get caps today because i’d started typing this in an email then decided to post it here and am too lazy to tweak it.A friend asked me the other day what excites me. My father had posed a variation of this question many, many years ago for a creative nonfiction project I call the… Continue reading a supplement to the second question
fall film challenge update: september
okay. so first off… i’ve decided i’m going to attempt to watch fifty movies this time around because i’ve never managed to do the regular AND bonus round lists, and i want to see if i can do it. this means that i had to bump some movies off my original list. the gray areas… Continue reading fall film challenge update: september