People must be getting really unlucky on Britain’s motorways these days. After all, they keep running out of petrol – at least, that’s what they are telling me. In the past few weeks I’ve been accosted on no less than four occasions at motorway service stations by these haple...

Gaarggghh.  I can't believe I didn't write about this.   Tonight is the first night of previews for Daniel's first show on a professional stage.  He's appearing as a performance intern at the 5th Avenue Theatre's production of "Hello Dolly!" starring Jenifer Lewis and Pat Ca...

I know this is kind of a dorky thing, but today is Sally’s third birthday.  Yeah, I’m one of those weird people who treats their dog like a kid but, at least, I don’t dress her up (she does wear a sweater when it’s really cold because she freezes) or drag her around with me (she gets ca...

I’ve been up since 7:30am and I’ve barely sat down today.  It actually feels really good to be so busy today.  The first thing I did was dye a big bunch of roving.  This is about a half pound or more of that mixed wool/llama/mohair/whatever that I got at the fiber fair last year, ...

I hope you didn’t miss me TOO much yesterday. But there was a reason I took a blogging day off. There are some of you who already knew this, but many of you didn’t know that back in December I was laid off from my architectural job. In and of itself, that isn’t unusual because the...

[via Gen -- thanks!] One of my very favorite authors, Haruki Murakami, received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society over the weekend — his short speech is thoughtful and noteworthy and worth reading the whole of, but here’s the piece that spoke to me and caus...

It has been months since this new overwhelming emotion centered the majority of my focus in life and after all this time, it’s still here. I always thought that like everything else that I fancied and desired, it will pass as if the desire never even came in the first place. But alas, being th...

A year ago, an Argentinean colegue trader, that hardly speaks English, told me that there was a vacancy on Fxstreet.com blogs. He told me to do it, he support me, he said: “you can do it!”. In fact he was the one that push me here (for your joy or hate ) so thank or blame him whatever yo...

But it's been really hard to blog about the cancer but I promise to post something tomorrow. I'm an emotional wreck right now (between coming to grips with having cancer and having a hysterectomy) and it's been hard to bring......

First off, I actually took my camera but decided there really wasn’t much worth photographing. Earlier this afternoon I was over in the thriving metropolis of Pittsville (the locals will get it) to attend a town hall meeting put on by my erstwhile but Democratic Delegates to the Maryland Gener...