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Moving at the speed of Julz

Time speeds up as you get older. I can remember when I was a kid, a school year was an eternity and when it ended for the summer, I couldn’t visualize Labor Day. It was a lifetime away, a lifetime of trips to the pool and the park, bike rides with friends, trips into Pittsburgh [...]

The Audacity of Hope

Rick would like you all to know that he was calling an Obama landslide three days ago. I would like you to know that I was making him knock on wood every time he said it.
I was cautious about this election. After getting kicked in the teeth the past two elections, I was skeptical that [...]

Chrysalis

Seven is a mythical number in the world, and seven years is an almost mythical amount of time. In the Bible, Joseph forsaw seven years of bumper crops followed by seven years of famine for Egypt. There’s seven years bad luck if you break a mirror. You supposedly get a seven year itch after enough [...]

5 September

We all know I don’t let this date pass without some commemoration. Today would have been Freddie Mercury’s 62nd birthday – happy birthday, Freddie. Still miss you terribly, but I trust you’re throwing one hell of a party in the afterlife and that makes me smile.

Send out good vibes for Aimee

I just got a phone call from ESC, telling me that Aimee’s dad is in the hospital having emergency surgery. There’s a post over at Aimee’s blog telling what’s happening, at least as far as anyone knows at this point. Aimee’s family has been having a really crap year, and they really didn’t need something [...]

Brigid in Cyberspace

I mentioned in the last post that this is Imbolc. I forgot to say that this festival also celebrates the goddess Brigid, who among other things is associated with poetry. Because of that, today is the Second Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Silent Poetry Reading, which you can read about here. Here’s the [...]

It’s Groundhog Day!

You know you just said that in a Bill Murray voice, don’t deny it.
It’s amazing how much the little rodent not seeing his shadow this morning has raised my spirits. I know we haven’t had a particularly cold or snowy winter in this part of the States, but the coming of spring always makes [...]

Happy Yule!

Mulberry hibernates ~ Lake Hill, NY
Today is one of my favorite holidays for the whole year: Yule, or the Winter Solstice. Today is the shortest day of the year. Tomorrow, even though we won’t notice it, the light starts coming back a little each day. To someone who struggles with Seasonal Affective [...]

A Much-Missed Voice of Reason

A short post today, because everything I could say about this man is not nearly enough. We miss you, John.

Growing up

Saturday my friend Jordana and I were sitting around, kicking stories back and forth for our book, and somehow got to talking about our friend Jessie, who became a mother a week and a half ago. Jordana said that she had seen Jessie and she looked radiant and the baby was adorable. I [...]