I am in Los Angeles right now (so warm!!!) but I’m posting some pictures from Minnesota last weekend. We grilled outside in 34 degree F weather. Now in LA it is going to be in the 70s. The assembly line…
Its funny. I’ve known since September 4th (my birthday) that I would be moving, but actually putting it into words and posting about it was another matter entirely. I guess I can talk about it now, since I recently stopped…
This is great! I’m driving to Minnesota tomorrow morning (Thursday) to visit my extended family there. I’ll get back on Sunday, probably. Then next Wednesday night I fly to Los Angeles, will be there for 5 days. Friday, October 27th:…
I am not a good pet owner. The other night I took out our gerbil, Sushi, from his cage and put him in his exercise ball to run around the living room. I promptly forgot about him. One of my…
I ran through the thick droplets the thunder in my bones the lightning in my eyes and my hair I would scream out at the sky but under city lights it is futile a waste of breath in the clattering…
I’ve had the opportunity to be a bit of a tourist in my own town recently. I normally have a really hard time with tourists…they block sidewalks, gape at perfectly normal things (like the man painted silver on Michigan Avenue),…
Oh, woe was me my glasses were lost I looked all day I was really quite cross. In purses and bags, the kitchen and room, the car, the gym, even the vacuum! Under the chairs, behind the couch I was…
My feet are happy. Thanks mom! Also, another perk of working at a large corporation: Paid corporate lunches. Especially chocolate milkshakes.
This article by Michael Rogers was brought to my attention a few days ago. It puts forth the idea that in the future the need to analyze and extrapolate a complex book will not be a skill that most people…
Apparently a pigeon was trapped on our sales floor for 2 hours yesterday. I missed the excitement because I was home sick. Most Chicagoans have a hate-hate relationship with pigeons…they’re always getting in the way and making a mess. I’m…
The sky and the slate roofs of the warehouses are almost the same shade of grey, blending into each other today. A good weekend of family, friends, the Baha’i House of Worship (always home to me, no matter what and…
let the past haunt in its way pale eyes shining we’ll run and I’ll taste the reasons we died little pieces of plastic and glass I let them wedge into my heart pry out the molecules left dispensing in the…
try to warn away the looks dissuade the conversation i’ve never been good at this maybe because i’m so good at this don’t know how not to continue to fall from grace every time i’m in this place every road…
Happy Birthday to me! What a wonderful birthday…I ate so much chocolate I can’t even move. mmm. Thank you to everyone who called, left messages, texted, and sent smoke signals. I am surrounded by amazing family and friends. September seems…
I felt the chill creeping around the corners yesterday Finally the herald of change is here! Wake up, it says Feel the cold and smell of dead leaves starting the race towards the poetry of rebellion against stagnancy my million-colored…
This coming holiday weekend has special significance, since my birthday is one week from today. That is, September 4th. This weekend also promises to be very busy. Friends in from out of town, family, and several events, some of which…
I have a drawer at work devoted to chocolate. Sometimes people give me chocolate, and in fact I was stuffing a Kit Kat bar into my mouth this afternoon when two Snickers bars were dropped onto my desk. Food (specifically…
My accounting and finance professors will be happy to know that I remember some of the things they taught me. I had a moment of shock during corporate training yesterday. I was able to answer a question about depreciation off…
constantly, consistently cold, the tips of my fingers shaking I retreat to the sun outside for an hour, just to revive quite sure that this is not the best way to work under a flourescence that does nothing to warm…
First of all, let me point out that Culver’s Chocolate Raspberry custard is all kinds of delicious. Real raspberries. Oh my. Again, thanks to the intrepid Adam L, we have…(drumroll please) MEATCAKE!! Yes, cake make out of meat, mashed potatoes,…
Gluten-free bread + Kraft singles + sliced onion + toasting = DELICIOUS My current food obsession. Grilled cheese onion sandwiches, open face. Can you tell I’ve been lazy recently? 🙂 My sandwiches, however, don’t have any images burned onto them….
Adam L pointed out this article to me about an art piece called a “Prayer Antenna” by Paul Davies. This started me thinking about why people of all faiths (or of no faith in particular) pray. Wikipedia has a good…
“O people of Bahá! The source of crafts, sciences and arts is the power of reflection. Make ye every effort that out of this ideal mine there may gleam forth such pearls of wisdom and utterance as will promote the…
(By Buckingham Fountain, click here for a larger image.) I’ve been having a lot of conversations with people lately about transition. I had a shocking moment the other day when I realized that a vast number of friends I formerly…
I dreamed about a house on a cliff last night it went on forever on the coast the waves crashed around and under the foundation it was in the mountains, abandoned there were stories draped around the house the corridors…
Last night at the Junior Youth Animator training we read the following quotation from the Baha’i Writings: “The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to…
Answering questions is such a difficult thing sometimes. I have such an open face, you can read my soul in my eyes and smile most of the time. This is both good and bad. Sometimes we have to be just…
I like bird nests. My sister and I used to collect them as children, along with any eggshell pieces we would find discarded. I like birds, too. But when a bird interferes with my everyday life, I get a little…
Feet sinking in the worn-down rocks When was the last time We felt sea foam around our ankles? I still think that I can spend sand dollars And get change. Spiny horseshoe crabs are banned from the car (sensitive noses,…
When cleaning out spam, I accidently deleted Leslie & Sam’s comments. um…sorry guys. haha. 😛