Browsing the archives for the thoughts category

Time Marches On

“I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”– Bill Watterson It’s hard to believe that it’s already August, yet here we are. My teacher friends are going back to work, and residents of the Gulf Coast are paying a little extra attention to the tropical storm activity which […]

No Weirdos

When I lived in New York I loved to spend time in Manhattan.

Stuff

“The price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.”
– Neil Gaiman, Dream Country: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Possibly Involving Loss

The day of my birth, my horoscope in the local paper read: “changes will come, possibly involving loss.” I don’t believe in horoscopes, but that does seem to sum up my life at times. I’m sure most people could say the same. Not a day goes by that I’m not grateful for all of the […]

iCan’t Remember

Here’s a funny little tidbit:
Fact #1: I can’t remember numbers very well. I remember the patterns they make on a keypad, but not the actual numbers.

What can brown do for you?

Not deliver a package apparently. It took me two weeks to get a next-day package out of UPS. The first attempt made it to my house on the next day, as promised, but it went through countless sets of UPS hands before my delivery man marked the shipment down as damaged/missing contents. Even though it […]

There are dead people in my address book

There are dead people in my address book. I just can’t bring myself to delete them. For friends and family that are no longer here, it’s like a digital tombstone sitting on my disk drive. Here’s their last phone number; their last address; their birthday. It’s never been easy for me to let go, and […]