This weekend I had a small crisis about my hair. I know that many of you who are reading this are squawking at me, but be honest with yourself. Haven’t you done the same?
Well, on Saturday I was totally fed up with my mullet of a hair-do. I think the thing that […]
I had almost forgotten about the ice storms that occur in the Southeast until a call yesterday from a friend. This morning, I awoke to ice covered trees and it’s really beautiful. It’s amazing how much better the scene that one wakes up to every morning can suddenly be. Davd made muffins […]
I’ve been feeling pretty stressed all week. I think I can pinpoint it back to last Saturday evening when I watched my teaching for Elijah House. Just for those of you who don’t know, Elijah House is a training that I am doing to be a better prayer minister (which is kinda like a […]
today i listen to french model carla bruni sing as i hit keys in my office attempting to make my own music. the music of organization and of words, for my harmony is totally at a loss with any other instrument. i’m writing a lot lately for my writing class and it’s hard. writing […]
I am missing Boston very much at this moment. I awoke with Boston in my heart and now I feel I can’t stop thinking of the city, the architecture, the snow, the friends. The complicated thing with my missing anything is that I sometimes miss things that I did not really enjoy at the […]
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Maria Full of Grace
3. Garden State
4. Supersize Me
5. A Very Long Engagement
Movies from 2004 that I have yet to see but which have a possibility of making the list: I Heart Huckabees, The Motorcycle Diaries, Goodbye Lenin!, Before Sunset, The Control Room, The […]
I want to be a better describer. There is nothing that I love more in the world than an amazing picture, whether it be a photograph, a painting, a movie shot or a real life picture. I love being visually stimulated. I want to describe in a way that brings beautiful pictures into people’s […]
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. As a writer. I’m just kidding…just building it up for effect. Classes begin today at UTC and my first class is called “Writing for Publication.” I think the focus will be on essays and nonfiction but it could be any […]
As some of you know, I have recently been reading a lot of children’s chapter books. I am perhaps reading my favorite right now. It is called Everything on a Waffle and its by Polly Horvath.
Listen to this great first paragraph:
“I live in Coal Harbour, British Columbia. I have never lived anyplace else. […]
I have been much delayed on posting on my site and I must beg apologies. After a semester of working a job in which I stare at the computer nonstop and being in a school which requires great amounts of time typing papers and doing research on the computer, I decided to take a computer […]