I really like you. As simple as that. I like the way you think about things, the way you laugh, the way you write with your left hand. I like that you read the paper and take your coffee black. I like the way your face lights up with surprise when I say something that [...]
So get this; my little blog that could has won an award!! A shiny, real, honest-to-goodness award:I’ve never gotten one before, and in honor of the giver (Long Red Cape, who knew?), I promise to write a Toolbag post forthwith. Well, in the next couple of days anyway because there certainly has been some toolbaggery [...]
I’ve seen a therapist for two years, but sometimes it’s a complete stranger who can help me see things more clearly when I least expect it. In the cleaning supplies aisle at Jewel the other day, I had just such an encounter. “Dave”: “Oh, hey! Mary, right?” Me, thinking: Mary? Really? Do I honestly look [...]
Okay, so DO NOT read comments for this meager posting if you have not seen last night’s Office episode. I’m talking plot with anyone who will have me. Here’s the part where you post a comment. So….get to it!
Oh, Pam. Poor, sad face Pam. Why did Andy have to steal Jim’s thunder? Jerkstore. And Dwight. Poor, broken down Dwight. Sitting there, defeated, after Angela accepted Andy’s proposal. Who knew you’d rekindle things moments later? And Michael. Poor, ridiculous Michael. Why can’t you see that as much as you want kids, Jan is totally [...]
Sometimes in the morning, after my train has dropped me off in the burbs, when I walk the 10 minutes or so to my office, an oncoming freight train approaches from the north. Walking toward it, I wait as it meets me on the bridge where the sidewalk narrows over the road full of haplessly [...]
I think my ghost may be back. It’s 1:33 am and I just bequeathed it the bedroom for the rest of the night. It woke me up. It….touched me. I swear. I felt the bed shake lightly, like a cat had jumped onto the foot of the bed, tip-toeing toward me as I lay with [...]
