The haemoid cream ain’t workin’ – yer still a pain in my ass

Oh I’ve nothing but myocardial infarctions since you left

When you left it was like transmyocardial laser revascularization 

My coccygodynia is all because of you

Any… Read full post »

I thought I'd post some fiction that I've written for you to read. Let me know what you think. This is not a true story, but is definitely based on some of my experiences. If people like it, I will post more of the story. Enjoy.

So, I'm sitting… Read full post »

I just shrug. He sits in silence, which is unnerving. Over the past weeks all it has been is me, sitting in silence and others yelling and chastising and berating me. Why did I do this? Why wasn’t I this way? How could I do this to them?  - that is… Read full post »

I sit in an old recliner; you know the kind that almost every grandpa has in the whole world. Worn and faded, it holds me – almost tenderly, you know? But I don’t want this. I’d rather sit on one of those hard, plastic chairs they put in the lecture halls.… Read full post »

I was talking with my mom a few weeks ago about my life philosophies and how they are being highlighted lately. Just thought I'd share them. You're invited to comment on them, add to them or let me know if you share them too.

I'm going to do this in parts… Read full post »

Thanks to everyone who read, rated and commented on my last post. J

I talked about being authentic and how that has changed my relationship with me and with other people.  It makes a huge difference when you start communication on the basis of truth. That is the second part/… Read full post »

Guess I'm a DHT virgin. :) I have written many haiku; even some about fruit on fruit. :P

Here goes...

miss your sweet breath up-

on my slick 'n' salty skin

come find me again

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ladybug lovers

afternoon sunshine scattered

thoughts of me and you

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hold me closer… Read full post »

My mom used to make this every Saturday night when we watched movies. I love eating it with the round, yellow chips. I let 'em soak until they get soggy.

Equipment

- Microwave oven
- Casserole dish with lid
- Knife - for chopping
- Hand blender* or a potato… Read full post »

This afternoon my friend and I had a discussion about fast vs. slow zombies. Here is what we came up with.

 And his response when I asked if I could publish the exchange? 

Go to town - can't let all this braaaaiiiinnnn power go to waste!  :)

Brilliant.

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i may write about this more in the future. i don't know right now - my heart is too swollen with pain.

 i didn't have a great child/teen/early adult hood. it's been rough.

today i read this article about the dangers of parental conditional love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/health/15mind.h… Read full post »

For my first Foodie Tuesday, I'm posting my 'recipe' for French Onion Soup.  I'm an 'eye-ball cook'; if it looks right, I'm going for it. So that is why this isn't a traditional recipe. And I enjoy being slightly irreverant in the kitchen - seems to be the one… Read full post »

Just a quick definition  for my made-up word.

Animalogical - from the Latin word anima meaning the inner self of an individual; the soul and logical meaning the orderly progression of things.

I created this word to express the age of the soul/mind. In my journey as a human, I've… Read full post »

soft warmth wrapped so
close to me - 'neath the covers
hiding from the rest

buzz buzz-buzzzz ahhh-uhhh
little toys never get old
buy more batteries

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This week I'm posting my recipe for my favourite cake - zebra cake, aka chocolate wafer icebox cake.Easy peasy and cheap! (for the Cheap Bastid) 

Ingredients

Couple of packages of Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers (These are usually in the ice cream cone isle – not the co… Read full post »

Life Philosophy…at 28 – Part 4

Things I control

This one I figured out last year. Still trying to master it, but I’m making progress.

There are only four, read it – 4, things in the world that I can control. And I mean the whole world, the entire vast… Read full post »

Can someone please explain to me, or point me to some good articles, why President Obama is being compared to Hitler? And being called a socialist?

 There is so much media coverage out there and all I can hear are the screaming, inarticulate radicals.

 I read the text of the… Read full post »

People are People.

Yup, that sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?

That is the problem with simple – it never really is easy. And this one is a toughie. As we move along in our lives, in the grooves and ruts we have worn away, we forget that everyone… Read full post »

  I never thought that silence could be deafening; it just seemed as though silence would bring peace to the soul, not a ravaging panic. I can’t hear anything beyond the silence - now so loud that it drowns out all other sound. I wonder what I have missed hearing with my… Read full post »

I am missing so many people these days. Some work out of town, some have left me, some are far away, some have died.

 Anyone want to fill some vacancies?

Need a:

grandma

grandpa

friends

support net who won't judge or leave...

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This is inspired by Homer Langley because what he wrote managed to open the door to exactly how I am feeling these days. 

I am Penelope, waiting...

My love is across the seas of wheat
Fields of rippling, endless green
Yellow heads bending in the wind
Frozen brown furrows of waiting eart… Read full post »