The problem with getting deep about my writing and choice of genres is that then — if you’re me — you have an incredibly strange week and spend what little time you have trying to catch up on work. And no time whatsoever on writing. And then feel lame because you haven’t written.
So the most [...]

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I’ve had an incredibly frustrating morning, and of the six or eight or so tasks I had planned for my trip to Mt. Shasta, I managed to get a coffee and make four color copies. No checks where they were supposed to be, no people where they were supposed to be. Driving from place to [...]

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One of the personal struggles I’ve never managed to get control of is my weight. While not as overweight as some, I do have a good 40-50 pounds I’d love to lose. Unfortunately, I love food, and it’s a comfort thing. I shopping-therapy-ed our finances into a state of emergency, and eating is… well, comforting. [...]

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As has been the case lately, days pass and I can’t hardly make enough sense of them to jot them down online. Beyond a rash of busy-ness offline, I’m again struggling with my ability to speak, to blog, to write. It takes force of will to type, right now, but I feel the need so [...]

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I feel like I’m losing my mind this morning. What better time to blog than now, while I wait for the Advil to kick in? It’s a nice day for the crazies.
I don’t think my mother realized how temporary this temporary office solution would be when she lent it to me a week ago; it’s [...]

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Yesterday, Lenneth helped me clear out over half my wardrobe — everything I don’t like, or that doesn’t fit, or doesn’t fit *right*, or isn’t my style. It felt fantastic to get rid of all my “fat” clothes, and everything else I didn’t feel comfortable wearing. Today I got on the scale and found that, [...]

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Yesterday I started a new regimen, led by Lenneth, of diet and exercise. She has amassed a stockpile of eating tips and tricks which worked for her, and I finally feel at a point in my life where I’m ready to have them work for me. I’m eating less, being more conscious of what I [...]

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