Yesterday morning as I was driving to work, images of a bespectacled Paul went through my mind, and I was briefly sad. Paul was a guy I met probably 8 or 9 years ago. I had met him through a church Sunday School class we were in, but our connections went a little deeper....
Read more →Today is just a flat journal entry about spending the day in the office. Mostly because it was a long day staring at the screen. This morning an online survey we made available last night to a certain audience registered entries for only English respondents. Of 800+ replies end day, if the instructions invited...
Read more →Today, Tim and I shared a humorous episode while doing some cosmetic and triage work in the alley behind the office. For some reason, a blue recycling bin ended up placed behind our office near the steps to our back door. The bin sat by our back door, but our office had not ordered...
Read more →One time we made an unconscious turn and wandered amidst the cement steles each great monolith like the other fire doors and fires escapes gray statues on a cement pond where litter floated here and there like dead fish. We did not know. “Hey, white girl” a low male voice called. It was a...
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I spent a good chunk of time on Sunday morning trying to sit back down into my research efforts on Anza. Some of the time was spent trying to read a few more pages in the Anza book, and some of the time was also spent transcribing chicken scratch notes written on a legal...
Read more →The weird thing is I don’t remember any of it, at the end, what happened when the bottom fell out. I look back and it’s like I was drugged out or something, because it was just months of mounting fighting and ugly words and silence and deep pain mixed with numbness and aloneness at...
Read more →I live my life in a fairly large sphere of silence, and I guess I make it that way. It’s not that I am not without noise and distraction around me, because I am usually busy doing something with the TV or a radio on nearby, feeding me music and talk. I just don’t...
Read more →I went to the library this afternoon to check out a book I had been wanting to read for a while- “Manhood”, by Terry Crews. Terry is the muscly guy that was in Old Spice commercials a few years back. He’s also a regular actor, currently in the Fox comedy, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, but also...
Read more →It’s a funny thing. You write because you want your thoughts and your ideas to be shared, to be enjoyed. You want to express your mental machinations and maybe share an insight or two on life and things going on in the world. And you create a platform- a blog- to do just that,...
Read more →Maybe I just lack scientific creativity. Maybe I don’t understand science. Or maybe I just don’t understand the endgame of postmodern thinking. Tim let me know today that after the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted personhood last week- with a whole sphere of legal benefits given to it as a human- several...
Read more →Hearing this afternoon that Sports Illustrated had a new issue coming out soon with Cub’s phenom and NL MVP Kris Bryant on the cover, I visited the Barnes & Noble website to get the phone number to a store here in town in my sort-of neighborhood. I had to ask Jeff the Magazine Guy...
Read more →It was a pretty good day today. I ate fairly cleanly for once, not diving into the candy store at work in mid-afternoon. I ate my breakfast at home before I left for work. Greg next door at Cafe Espresso gifted me a carne burrito this morning, so I ate it for lunch. And...
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I was born in Albuquerque and have spent most of my life living here. I’ve also spent time in most every weekday in the last nine years on I-25, driving north and south to and from work. It’s odd, then, that it was only a few years ago that I actually noticed the three...
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Miscellaneous thoughts from today: • There is that smell in the house again. It smells like something moist in the walls. It’s so random. Maybe it is just me. • I’ve kind of lost an interest in Facebook. Just nothing compelling on it for me any more. I don’t connect well with people through...
Read more →It was a month or so ago when Brett, my sister’s eldest son, nonchalantly made the announcement to his mother. “Mom, I have a girlfriend.” And, like that, Brett had entered the universe of love and dating. The high schooler, without fanfare, was in a relationship. Wow. Easy peasy. It happens. Who knows why,...
Read more →I’m not an astronomer. Ask me to find the Big Dipper for you on any given night, and I’d be lost. I never know if the bright one in the twilight sky is Venus or Mars or Saturn, if you asked me. I’d probably guess Venus, but I don’t really know for sure. However,...
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