I happily accepted the invitation to dinner, knowing all the while that I'd be tired and facing my not-atypical evening crankiness. But...
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I am cheered, as always, by arriving in Chicago. "I always liked it, too," Mom sighed when I gushed over my room and the view and ...
Puppy Post (Dog Blog?)
My pretty puppy - and favorite friend - grows older. We have recently conquered an ear infection and her good eye appears to be hanging in ...
2010 Retrospective, The Playlist
Will, a singularly sexy individual I have seen three times, knows music and when I asked his favorite song, he said he could never pick just...
Home for the Holiday
"I'm almost home," I croaked to my mother, pausing at a stop sign in the cold, dark evening before accelerating toward my hous...
Men @ Work
“No,” I offered simply, my voice sounding low and stuffy, after Morose finished his story. He sighed – a deep and meaningful exhalation of...
Deep
I am writing quite a lot, spending hours with my laptop and drafting paragraphs and puzzling over how to articulate certain thoughts. It hel...
Password: Headache
My disease-infested family has infected me with some sort of bug - I feel achy and nauseated, my head constantly aching but with varying deg...
Dissonance
I tucked my hand through my companion's elbow and moved quickly from the room and through a wide doorway into the next gallery, ignoring...
Pros & Cons
For every shriek, there is a corresponding cuddle, though the two events are temporally separated. For every time I rolled my eyes at a sel...
Tangles, Snags & Other Messes
Are you familiar with Sonic? It is a chain restaurant that differs from many fast food options in that there are a bunch of parking spots -...
Eventful
"Yours was the best one," my last student murmured and I resisted the urge to cuddle him and instead squeezed his forearm with gre...
Sunday's Sermon
There were eleven congregants, the pastor and piano player making us a baker's dozen clustered in the old church at the top of the hill....
Changes in Chicago
"I'm thinking of going to Rome for my birthday," I announced over lunch, satisfied nearly to smugness when my friends ceased n...
Personal Pause
I have been - well, am , actually - dating. Given my tendency to over-think most situations I find interesting, there are several posts I co...