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  • seventeen weeks, two days

    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 […]

    July 9, 2019
  • 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 […]

    March 10, 2019
  • 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 […]

    January 14, 2019
  • 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 […]

    January 5, 2019
  • 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, […]

    December 28, 2018
  • 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 […]

    November 11, 2018
  • 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 […]

    October 28, 2018
  • 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 […]

    October 15, 2018
  • 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 […]

    October 7, 2018
  • 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 […]

    September 27, 2018
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