Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
From the monthly archives:
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here’s what she said to me.
Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.
When I was just a little girl, I was always leading the neighborhood [...]
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Talking to a neighbor (Raven’s Roads)
We isolate ourselves. It’s really quite unnecessary. Neighbors might never become your closest friends, but they could become allies. The easiest way to meet a neighbor is to throw a house-warming party, if you can do something like that. If not, then you could simply start with a hello when [...]
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White House Systematically Squelches Dissenters (Buck Naked Politics)
The illusion-building instructions were laid out in the “Presidential Advance Manual,” dated October 2002. This manual became public after two wrongfully arrested protesters (who dared wear Bush-unfriendly T-shirts to a presidential appearance) sued the White House: incidentally, we taxpayers spent $80,000 settling the case on the White House’s [...]
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Thirteen courses I would like to see (Journeywoman)
7) Money doesn’t grow on trees–really! How to get and keep a job
I like some of my new young 20-something coworkers. I really do. But their cluelessness on how to act in the workplace is beyond me. No one ever had to tell me that I shouldn’t [...]
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Last night I got out of bed and made the long, treacherous journey downstairs to the bathroom. This is not an uncommon event. Yet, for some reason as I was sitting there, I looked up and there were two cats and a Pug crowded into the doorway peering at me with concern [...]
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Thursday Thirteen #30 — Easy Ways to Give (One Gal’s Musings)
Back-to-school is an expensive time in many households. Vacation bills are coming in. Gas and dairy prices are sky-high. Money is tight everywhere. But that’s the very reason why this can be an especially hard time for charities. Not only do they get less [...]
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One of my favorite NPR segments is “This I Believe“. I always feel inspired after I hear someone read what it is he or she believes whether it’s religious or about how noisy bookstores have become or about peace in the Middle East. I know that this really isn’t the same. This [...]
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Nice matters. It sounds cliché, I know, but did you ever notice how generally genuinely nice Harry himself was to pretty much everyone to start off with. He didn’t seem to judge anyone by their outward appearance — half-giants, house elves, big-eyed girls with crazy ideas, timid nerdy wizards who’d lost their frogs, [...]
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Yesterday I met with the psychiatrist for a med check. This is the first time I’ve done so since 2003, which if anyone is paying attention, means is the first time since I moved to Maine. My GP increased my anti-depressant to the max dose in early 2005 when I complained that it [...]
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I’m not a big fan of elevators. They’re generally small, closed in, dirty spaces or worse, they’re small, closed in, windowed spaces — perfect for the agoraphobic claustrophobic in all of us. Mostly I don’t like the fact that inevitably someone seems to invade my space in them.
I was extremely excited this weekend [...]
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
-- Pat Conroy
What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
