today some things happened that reminded me how breakable the heart is. on the light end – my parents played a christmas trick on us. we came downstairs and nothing […]
Year: 2008
christmas: a confession
it’s christmas eve at my parents still-new home in new hampshire, everywhere I look is covered in snow. I come from a christmas household. I grew up going to church, […]
melted
just slipped out of a hot long bath with these bath cubes from l’occitane, reading the year of rice and salt, which i have been slowly reading for months. i […]
things i miss and/or missed
have talked through incident with my amazing mother, and am feeling better. the chords i have struck run deep. now. being exposed to pop culture and news in a way […]
incident
i just missed an incident in denver, which i found out later on the news was a massive accident, a mystery, people jumping out of a burning plane, 38 injuries, […]
heading east
i am smiling in the airport, so i thought i would try to blog this moment. i turned 30 this year, lots of drama, tragedy, checking out, checking in, messing […]
frost/bush
just got home from seeing frost/nixon, and was really impressed with the story, how it unfolded. it’s impossible not to transpose some bush, some reagan onto the nixon character – […]
planning out a year
today i spent the day with the ruckus staff, planning out a year of activities. we’re halfway through our weeklong staff lock-in. and it’s kind of a crazy idea, given […]
Throwing Shoes at Bush
found on facebook this morning: “We are collecting shoes to bring to the gates of The White House on Monday, January 19th, Bush’s last day in office. In the Middle […]
young women’s power
good rainy oakland morning y’all. i spent the weekend in chicago at my first meeting for the young women’s empowerment project, or YWEP. “Our mission as the Young Women’s Empowerment […]