I’ve been in Min­nesota almost ten years now.  My first year we had snow.  Real deep, pretty and cold. Being a new North­erner I hadn’t seen any­thing quite like it before.  I cer­tainly hadn’t lived in it.  It hasn’t hap­pened since then.  We’ve had snow, but not a lot, not a lot all at once.  […]

There was really only so much more cold and dreary I could deal with…I felt my san­ity slip­ping away…running actu­ally, run­ning away from the cold grey.  “What?  You com­plain about cold and rainy yet you dream of Seat­tle?”  I know, but its different…way dif­fer­ent.  Seat­tle has an ocean, for that, I deal with rain.
But the infusion […]

I used to write in here a lot. It was like a brain purge. And I was hon­est. When life was good I wrote it, when it wasn’t I wrote it, when preg­nancy was awe­some or it sucked I was hon­est about it. But for some rea­son I’ve always avoided writing […]

One of my favorite things to do when there is fresh snow on the side­walk is to match stride length with any foot prints that are already there so that it looks like one per­son with two dif­fer­ent shoes was care­fully hop­ping.
I was doing that today then came across a sec­tion that some­one had already […]

In the old apart­ment you could stand in the hall and look out the win­dow at the build­ing across the street.  You could just make out the images of women mov­ing.  You could hear bells and the jin­gle of coins.  They had belly danc­ing classes there.
I loved hear­ing them, the clap­ping, the bells, the music.  […]

I’m try­ing to write about this and keep it halfway PG.  But I have no other words for fuck­ers like this guy.  I believe that there are Repub­li­cans out there that aren’t big­ots, and to them I say, guys like this are your prob­lem.  You seri­ously want a racist ass­hole like this to be the […]

I’ve been eat­ing better…well less at least.  I’ve been drink­ing water (not beer).  I’ve been get­ting more exer­cise, feel­ing smaller, feel­ing more fit, and dare I say like I have been look­ing bet­ter.  So when I get some boots that don’t fit my calves what do i do?  I don’t say “damn it, boots never […]

Just walk­ing into an art school last night gave me belly flops.  I went to col­lege with an art school, but not an ART art school, not a school just for art.  And that was like a mil­lion years ago!  Then we went into the sup­ply cel­lar, which imme­di­ately gave me the “damn I’m so […]

Warn­ing:  The fol­low­ing post men­tions boobs…and the fact that boobs are food for babies.  If this offends or freaks you out, well, grow up a lit­tle but feel free to visit the archives for some­thing a lit­tle less boob related.
For the past month or so I have been hop­ing, wish­ing, plead­ing, for Ijah to eat […]

My twen­ties are offi­cially over.  Lot’s of stuff rolls through my head when I think about that.  A LOT hap­pened in my twen­ties.  I wont even attempt to list them.  The past sev­eral years have changed my life for­ever, in the very best of ways, but I don’t need to go over that all.  In […]