Archive for 2011

Theme changes

I’ve been trying on new themes like dresses before a date and if you visit my blog often I bet it’s gotten pretty annoying. But I’ve finally found a theme I’m happy with and promise not to change it again for at least a few months, though I may shrink down the size of the […]

Last call

Body Bags by Brian Turner A murder of crows looks on in silence from the eucalyptus trees above as we stand over the bodies — who look as if they might roll over, wake from a dream and question us about the blood drying on their scalps, the bullets lodged in the back of their […]

Moving

As Lizbet pointed out, today is not actually Sunday. But why would anyone complain about getting the Sunday Song a day early? If anyone else was as offended as Lizbet about the error, my only excuse is that I’m up to my eyeballs in boxes and bubble wrap and flight itineraries. Keeping track of the […]

Commiseration

From Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda: The only people who seemed to understand how to talk to someone with a chronic illness were other people who were sick. I didn’t need advice, I didn’t need them to say they were sorry, I just […]

Hideous things

Today, while fantasizing about the shoes I’d buy if I’d become an actuary instead of an ecologist, I came across this monstrosity: These may be the ugliest shoes I have ever seen.