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So, I’ve been a slacker in a lot of regards.
Gulf Wars was a great vacation, and while I was tempted to do a blog recap- I’m not.  Many of the things I want to remember are not ones that need to be retold by the harsh glare of your computer screen… and many of them […]

I’m faced with two choices:  Own up to the truth or phone in a lie.
I am choosing the former- but it’s hard.
Soooo, that quote that I posted for the quote challenge this week:  At first glance, it seemed perfect.  See, I am an adoring fan of Miss Manners.  I know that sometimes I can be […]

I didn’t forget about it being my job to post a quote today… I just hadn’t done it quite yet.  And I had this whole OTHER thing that I was going to write on but I axed it about 10 paragraphs in, so that took time.  Anyhow- here you go.  Have fun.
“It is far more […]

There are no good songs for 31.
29 had a great song- “29″ by the Gin Blossoms.  30 had a pretty good song, even if “My Next 30 Years” is galaxies away from being autobiographical for me at the moment… it was still a good song.  I wasn’t trepidatious about turning 30, not like I am […]

Cormac gives us this quote this week:
“Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness” Terry Pratchet
I’m not taking the quote literally - of course- because we all know that if I had a flamethrower, then dark or not, I’d be finding every possible reason to employ it’s use.  I like fire.  I […]

Kat’s contribution to the Quote Challenge this week:
“Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.” ~ Bob Dylan
Kneejerk reaction:  “Oooo….Really?”
I love silence.  I especially love companionable silence as a group activity.  Being able to cozy down in quiet with people, or just a person, that you trust well enough to be able to be […]

from Judith Viorst, via OriginalSara:
I’ll have no trumpets, triumphs, trails of glory.
It seems the woman I’ve turned out to be
Is not the heroine of some grand story.
But I have learned to find the poetry
In what my hands can touch, my eyes can see.
The pleasures of an ordinary life.
It might be the curse of the middle-ish […]

Every time I’ve been the one to pick the quote, I have been under the misunderstanding that I was picking something SUPER easy, and then I sit down to write about it and I figure out that I’ve gone and shot myself in the foot. This is hard- but hard is good. Hard […]

What a lovely, lovely weekend!
We had some serious girl-time going on this weekend. Sabine and I actually got to be at an SCA event and enjoy one another’s company! Ya’ll just don’t know how odd that is. Typically, she and I have to spend a good portion of our Sundays on the […]

Soooo…. some of the Usual Suspects and I have decided to re-start the Quote Challenge, because back in 2006 we had some fun with it, and we’re all suffering from serious lack of inspiration. I’m linking the original post with the original rules, I’ll post a quote that’s hopefully at least a little bit […]