Late afternoon, in upper Northwest bound for the city
The man sitting across from me would not stop pawing at his girlfriend.  I was sitting in the seats that have their backs to the wall facing into the center of the car, while they were in the last row of the seats facing toward the back, […]

Ever since discovering the “reopen tabs” option, I have a steady ribbon of tabs that I keep open in my firefox.  BLT. My two email addresses.  Facebook. Ravelry, plus whatever knitting pattern I’m working on at the time.  Missionstclare’s calendar of morning and evening prayers, which was how I discovered that the Anglicans apparently commemorate […]

Knowing well the collective genius of my friends and associates, I have decided to outsource a portion of my production of brilliant ideas that will make us all a million dollars.  I need your input, folks, on a couple of things:
a: Songs.  I am putting together a mix with the general theme of one country […]

I did my first bit of proper getting-around-biking last night.  One of the nice things about having had my bike stolen once is that now, every time I come back and find my bike still there (especially if I’ve locked it in an area I don’t know, or to a thing that isn’t one of […]

Part two of our three-part series on Missed Connections. Also, apparently, part XI of our ongoing portraits in duality.
While Alicia and Mark were certainly not a couple in the conventional sense, people thought of them together. They couldn’t help following the thought of one with the thought of the other, any more than […]

Time for a life update: I am in my new house. I will be in this new house for a maximum grand total of a month.  Why, you ask, would anyone do a fool thing like subject themselves to the ordeal of moving twice inside a space that can fit in the short-term memory?  Well, […]