I came across an interesting premise in blogging while reading Susannah Conway’s beautiful blog today. Dust off a few various and sundry posts, then highlight one from another blogger you admire. Susannah’s done so, and, if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to do the same. In particular, I’m trotting out the following (and bending the [...]
Last time, I went to the midnight showing. Sleep be damned, I just had to know what happened with Carrie and Big. I had to be among the first, and I couldn’t risk finding out through some spoiler online or from overhearing. Admittedly, watching a 3 hour + movie at midnight made for a VERY [...]
I thought of you today. I do most days, but sitting on the train, looking out the window, I saw something that made me remember you all at once. The train was pushing south and I watched as the trees collected more leaves and buds the farther from Chicago I traveled. The country fields sat [...]
Some words are of such a nature that you print them out, fold the paper, tuck it into a beloved book or journal. The words are eloquent, poignant, memorable. You allow yourself to believe they are about you. In times of doubt, you revisit them and are assured. I write when someone moves me… the words [...]
People have this unsurprising tendency to come and go from my life- how dare they! In truth, I recognize it happens to all of us. But it’s strange how all the quirks of your knowing them- all The Days That Have Meaning- go along with the person. Except that they don’t really. The memory of [...]
It took another blogger’s writing to help me tap into something I’ve been carrying around inside me; unable to acknowledge nor articulate for some time. From her words on hope and crushes, I found myself commenting about my own crush, then thinking more about what I realized therein… My crush is on the memory of [...]
There’s something about returning, if only for a day, to my once upon a time hometown. I’m one of the few who got out and, with my parents relocated, I’ve long since stayed away. But driving up the street of the neighborhood in which I grew up, it did something to me when we brought [...]
