Heavyweight
"How you spend your days is how you spend your life."~GlennI am either sleepingtrying to cleansleepingtrying to worksleeping...making plans with peopletrying to sleep...while wishing I did not make the plansmeeting up with people (albeit begrudgingly)and thenbeing happy in the end that I did.Is that too long to put on my tombstone?I have been cleaning like a mad woman.I was scrubbing and cleaning in fast motion from 8 am until 5 pm until I was stopped dead in my tracks by a jolt to my senses.No really. Literally--electrocuted by a light fixture on the ceiling of our back porch.So not

Ode to a Blue Pill.
I enjoy a good night's sleep.The type that is so deep that the sound of someone's snoring, canine or human, does not bother me.The type that is so deep that an 8 yr old's toe digging into my ribs does not disturb me.The type that is underwritten by Ambien.My friend Stephanie L. calls me a submarine.She's observed my propensity for submerging and surfacing almost with predictability.Her candid observations have made me reflect on the the people I am drawn to and vice versa.Patient, non-judgmental (at least not obviously), fun, dependable yet independent.That the people in my life just go

Retribution
My housecleaning armor.October 16 at 9:14amGil, I am sorry for all those times I mocked you about your rhinitis I am majorly afflicted with adult onset allergies and so

I hope I am not a...
I hope I am not allergic to my bulldog because I am not giving him up.

While the Philippines Weeps
Manila suffered from the worst flood in 50 years.