I’ve been feeling crappy for several days (mentally now, not physically, though the one does have power over the other if you recall yesterday&#...
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Stress and depression make me sicker than any actual viruses or bacteria ever do (and I double-checked the plural of virus before I typed that. Trust ...
Read Moremind over matter
Halloween: Went into NYC – without a costume – and experienced the fun surreality that is Manhattan on Halloween. I’ve done the para...
Read Moregetting caught up
So that phrase popped into my head; I wondered about the origin and looked it up. Thus far, I can’t find anything about the origin of the goat v...
Read Moregiving up the goat… or ghost?
Thought the first: Cauliflower is the tripe of the vegetable family. In many ways. Thought the second: I am torn between spending $335 to get an incre...
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Also, I’m home. Yay, New Jersey. My flight was almost an hour early, thanks to an 80-100 mph tail wind. And the plane was practically empty R...
Read MoreHome again, home again.
Oh. Did I mention I saw Marie Osmond at Quilt Market yesterday? The scene was thus: I’m chatting with someone interested in the book. Then there...
Read Moreother bits and pieces
1) It’s a little bit sad how all cities have the same flavor nowadays. In the few days I’ve been here, I really haven’t experienced ...
Read MoreA few other things I realized.
So, I’ve spent the last two days in Houston, Texas, attending Quilt Market 2008. It’s a work trip, and I didn’t know quite what to e...
Read MoreCreative juices. Or syrups.
The view from the 19th floor of my hotel....
Read MoreHere’s Houston.
Tomorrow afternoon, I’m flying down to Houston. For work. I get back on Monday. This will be ten straight days of work. Apparently, in civilized...
Read MoreThe foreseeable future.
“It” being stuck in dead-stopped traffic because of late-night road work on the one highway that can get me from work back home — af...
Read MoreThere’s nothing quite like it.
… but when I find Anger rearin’ its head, nothing makes me feel better than a combination of two or more of the following: 1) going runnin...
Read MoreI don’t know about Putin…
Sometimes it only takes a few hours of mundanity the mundane to pull me across the line from “OK” to “completely apathetic” an...
Read MoreSunday musings
I haven’t had much time to write. It’s OK. Actually doing stuff is a nice change from writing about wanting to do stuff, yes? Anyway, ther...
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