by Mir | Sep 24, 2012 | Health is overrated, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Left to my own devices, I don’t often find it hard to write. My head is always full of STUFF—some of it important, plenty not—and the STUFF gets tangled up with pesky FEELINGS and then there is something about the act of extracting those things from...
by Mir | Sep 21, 2012 | My name is Grumplestiltskin, Oh look! Something furry!!
I kind of left you hanging, this week. I’m sorry. I would tell you all about it, but I’m currently still in the “I hate everyone and everything” phase on several fronts, so give me a few more days to return to some semblance of humanity. In the...
by Mir | Sep 18, 2012 | I'm dating the television
Remember when getting a color TV was a big deal? And when getting a television with a remote was a big deal? Remember when more than a dozen channels was a big deal? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’re my people. (Of course, if...
by Mir | Sep 17, 2012 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
I always find myself looking forward to the weekend with a fervor that borders on religious, particularly by Thursday or Friday. It’s going to be SO NICE, I think, and I will SLEEP LATE and RELAX and RECHARGE. And then Monday rolls around and I am just as...
by Mir | Sep 14, 2012 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
One of the things I love most about Hippie School is that it exists just about a step and a half to the left of flat-out Lord of the Flies when the kids are playing outside. (And of course they play outside for hours each day, unlike those good ol’...