A few months ago, I was friended on Facebook by a former middle school and high school classmate of mine. We'll call her Jenny. My graduating class was pretty small--I think there were about 90 of us there at the end, thanks to a rather shocking number of suicides and crash… Read full post »

Yesterday I received an unexpected phone call from my mother's hair stylist, who called me to let me know that she was worried about my mother. It seems that she had been doing Mum's hair, as she does every three weeks, when my mother, the most private and secretive person I… Read full post »

Our house is in a neighborhood close to the edge of town. We are near the end of a cul-de-sac, from which there are single-track trails leading up the hill to an old farm that now belongs to the City. The City mows a walking path around the perimeter of the… Read full post »

Last night I dreamed about babies. Again.

My husband and I had apparently had a baby boy some months prior, and had given him up for adoption. Now, we wanted him back, but it didn't look as though it was possible. Worst of all, I couldn't even remember what we had named… Read full post »

Today is the 2-year anniversary of the massacre at Virginia Tech. This morning, my husband and I met several of our closest friends at a downtown coffee shop, decked out in our Virginia Tech finery. We talked together to campus, where thousands of people were assembled for the main remembrance event… Read full post »

On April 1st, 2007, I started hiking north from Amicalola State Park in Georgia on what was intended to be a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. April 15th was my worst day of hiking ever, which is saying a lot considering how much hiking I've done. I was in North Carolina,… Read full post »

1. My screen name is taken from a Welsh fairy tale. My real name is taken from the same fairy tale (no guesses, please!)

2. I was baptized Greek Orthodox and raised (mostly) Catholic. For a few years in high school, I was a practicing Wiccan. I am now an agnostic,… Read full post »

coogansbluf has inspired me, with his terrifying tale of a bad hitchhiking experience, to share my own hitchhiking stories.

I've only picked up hitchhikers once when I was alone. I was driving across the never-ending state of Montana to visit my mother in Billings, and saw two disheveled women… Read full post »

A friend from another blogging site introduced me to this style of writing a few years ago. It's interesting to see how much can be said with so few words. Here are a few of mine.

 Speechless

What I meant to say to him was lost somewhere between my heart,… Read full post »

Really, I shouldn't complain, and have only myself to blame. So many people in this country, including friends of mine, are losing their jobs and their homes. I, on the other hand, am doing better than I have done before. Although I'm in my mid-twenties, this year was the first that… Read full post »

During an ill-advised year in my early 20's--not so long ago--I dated an abusive, much older, but very wealthy Englishman, whom I had met while on study abroad in Ecuador. The detailed story of our tumultuous relationship will have to wait for another day. That summer, prior to my return to… Read full post »