Category: 2011

Geek Love

A few days ago, a stroke of happenstance bade me watch the premiere of a TLC show, “Geek Love.” The premise, of course, is insight into the stories of several hopefuls at the New...

Messages for the Kids

In the last few months, I’ve heard some discourse on the negative messages that Disney movies send to kids. Not that I don’t feel strongly about the media that children are exposed to, but...

Some People Want to Fill The World

    with silly love songs. I think people are getting duped. The majority of the videos on YouTube have no value except to a few people. Although not everyone wants to watch little Billy’s...

I Go Nowhere High

I Go Nowhere High

    I go nowhere warm until I see your smile and feel your calm I feel great. June this year is starting a hundred times better than June last year. I actually think that keeping...

If Your Goal is Plain Survival

If Your Goal is Plain Survival

  Well, then be clever      not beautiful Now that June’s on the near horizon (it may as well be tomorrow for how fast these days are going), I’m going to try this year to be...

On M’a Dit Que Nos Vies

On M’a Dit Que Nos Vies

Ne valent pas grand chose, Elles passent en un instant, comme fanent les roses This weekend felt long and centering with a healthy dose of perspective. I am thankful. I was lucky enough to...

Here We Are

Here We Are

As bright as evening stars     that light the way. On Saturday, Tom and I read a bit from an Enneagram book he borrowed. I have a lot of considering and introspection to do before...

Then You Will Sing for Me

Then You Will Sing for Me

the way I sing for you I love Tom. And for all I enjoy and cherish my newer friends (he is too, after all, a relative new-comer to my life), there is of course...

I’m Tom Rhodes’ Woman.

I’m Tom Rhodes’ Woman.

And I do what I want. Somewhere out there is a happy medium between being a people-pleasing doormat and being a selfish, awful person. It’s been my goal, for many years, to find it....

Lift Yourself From Once Below

Lift Yourself From Once Below

  Praise the anger,     bring it on home “It’s just that sometimes, I wish I had someone to share things with. For example, when I saw all of Paris from a skyscraper, I wanted to...