Last Thursday I went for a run. I had to. It was such a beautiful day here - 80 degrees and sunny with a breeze. I mean, that's great weather at ANY time but right smack at the end of winter and just a mere 4 days after a big SNOWSTORM and man, that made for a good day. There is a trail near our...

Recently I noticed my blackberry randomly dumps emails from my inbox. Upon doing a search on The Google I realized it was because I had too many pictures stored in my phone. Okay. Fine. I downloaded them into a folder on my computer, erased them from my phone and promptly began filling up the memory...

I am a lucky, lucky woman. For yet another year, I have seen pretty much every movie that has come out in the past few months. Well, not every movie. I haven't seen any movies where people get cloven in two with axes or where dogs' heads rotate upside-downly in a most upsetting manner or whe...

There are many, many things to say. Most of them start with "Hell Ya" or sound like a MasterCard commercial: Monster Truck show tickets ….. $26.00 2 large beers ….. also $26.00 Realizing your dental hygienist was right about the importance of flossing ….. priceless Once a long, long ...

My sister and I are different. I've posted about those differences before. It's amazing we came from the same parents and grew up under roughly the same conditions. It's like planting 2 seeds in a pot, covering them with the same dirt, setting them in the same window sill, watering them ...

I think a lot of life comes down to traction.   Think, for example, of a truck stuck in the mud or a car slipping on ice. It's not a lack of power that's keeping the vehicle from moving forward, it's a lack of traction. So it goes with life. It's not a lack of ability that keeps me from accomplishi...

It's not that I'm not trying. I am.   I've started a hundred posts in the past week. Okay, not a hundred. Four. But four is a lot. Not a hundred, true, but it is a lot. Considering I haven't posted since Dramarama was popular I'm pretty pleased with four. Four is a healthy number of posts to start....

Dear Ben, Jared, Pat and Jordan, HAPPY ONE YEAR! It’s been a year.   Can you believe it?  One year since we made those toros our bitches in Pamplona.  One year since we all ran like idiots down those cobblestoned streets.  One year since Jared … I think it was Jared or w...

I once heard that the place in your brain that houses memory is right next to the storehouse of smells.  Which explains why you can sniff something, anything, from years ago and have an immediate memory for it.  I have these.  Old Spice AquaNet Horseshit But sometimes I feel I have gr...

I've always been fascinated by the human body. Growing up I was the kid who played with worms. I never minded getting or being dirty. Living on a farm meant there were many duties that involved the grosser side of life - these never bothered me. When I was 12 I helped birth a lamb by sticking my...