By the numbers.
My entire life, I’ve been heavier-than-average. I’ve had my times of adorable chubbiness (primarily before the age of, oh, seven or eight), my times of fatness, my times of chunkiness, my times of curvaceousness. My times of picking the language that not only describes my body but perhaps more appropriately describes how I’m feeling about [...]
July 10, 2012
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Internal dialogue.
Good heavens, it’s been over a month since I posted anything on my blog! Well, what would you like to post about? That’s sort of the problem. Nothing feels finished. I don’t feel like I have a story or anything particular to say. When has that ever stopped you before? The point of the blog [...]
April 26, 2012
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Tags: self, silly, writing about writing · Posted in: Uncategorized
Car!
Oh boy what a week. The past seven days have contained a lot of things! But in the interest of time, concision, and not boring everyone to death, I am going to concentrate on one from today in particular. Today I paid off my car! And not just my car. Without going into ridiculous detail, [...]
February 12, 2012
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Tags: car, milestone, money, self, time · Posted in: Uncategorized
One for the books.
It’s October now, and when exactly did that happen? September was one hell of a month for me. I feel like I ran an emotional marathon, with perhaps a few spiritual wind-sprints thrown in for good measure. Add a few mental kettle-bells and…basically, you drive a promising metaphor into the ground. But it was intense. [...]
October 2, 2011
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Tags: complication, figuring it out, self · Posted in: Uncategorized
Givin’ it up
This year for Lent, I gave up French fries. I know I’ve railed in the past against people who use Lent as some sort of New Year’s Resolution Continuance, and it’s always been especially puzzling to me in people who don’t profess the Christian faith. Why not just let yourself off the hook if it’s [...]
April 10, 2011
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Tags: self, thinking · Posted in: faith
Did someone say “bucket list”?
You know, I’d never heard the term “bucket list” until they made that movie. A movie, I’ll note, that I haven’t seen. In fact I just looked it up to remind myself of the premise, so I’ll share: “Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with [...]
March 11, 2011
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Tags: blogfest, lists, self, thinking · Posted in: Uncategorized
for you, valentine
Another year, another love letter. For the past few years, I’ve written about different kinds of love for Valentine’s Day – love for friends, love for humanity in general, love for family. I’ve had the great good fortune to work on lots of things I love lately, experiencing love in many ways – love for [...]
February 13, 2011
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Tags: love, observation, self · Posted in: Uncategorized
The things I wasn’t writing.
I have a confession to make. For a few months I’ve had a very specific worry hanging over my head, and I haven’t written about it here at all. A little while back I wrote about feeling “unready,” and that was the closest I came to talking about it. In October I had a routine [...]
January 9, 2011
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Tags: health, self · Posted in: Uncategorized
Deep Breath
The past week was a really quiet one. I didn’t have any plans in the evenings, and I didn’t go out of my way to make any. I wrote a bit, but I also watched a lot of TV and read a lot and went to bed at a reasonable hour almost every night. I [...]
September 6, 2010
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Tags: busy, fall, pause, self · Posted in: Uncategorized
Shirting the issue
As much fun as it was to write my last little dialogue, it’s mainly fictional details spun around a core of truth. The precise circumstances under which I learned about the magical properties of my shirt were changed, and in some instances wholly fabricated, to protect the innocent. And in the interest of full disclosure, [...]
August 25, 2010
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Tags: clothing, fun, self · Posted in: Uncategorized
