this season's archives: 06.26.08--9:16 am- "the dicey weather makes us all seriously consider global warming" 06.25.08--11:32 pm- eight hundred fires, one thousand fires 06.25.08--11:11 pm- river veins 06.25.08--11:06 pm- i'm sick of running. when you figure it out, i'll be here. 06.16.08--9:36 pm- "You guys really made Columbo's day over here," said Angela, later. 06.16.08--9:33 pm- albino patron 06.09.08--1:28 pm- truth is what is. not what should be. truth is what is. -- lenny bruce 06.02.08--9:19 pm- she moved away a year ago and now she says 05.30.08--3:09 pm- "he's a tall drink of water and my body's thirsty. my body's parched." 05.30.08--2:44 pm- "linear" is not a direction found in nature 05.21.08--8:06 pm- and all of a sudden dragons make a lot more sense, 05.17.08--9:49 am- it's hot. let's go. 05.14.08--11:43 pm- women barbecuing 05.14.08--11:24 pm- balmy palms 05.13.08--10:24 am- intimacy issues 05.11.08--9:35 pm- happy mother's day 04.25.08--4:41 pm- compliments of the local library. 04.16.08--3:29 pm- you know. 04.11.08--2:42 pm- my broken heart 04.11.08--2:30 pm- the lonely loner looked at love but he didn't want her 04.10.08--1:33 pm- it's okay. it's good. it's calm. it's quiet. 04.07.08--12:43 pm- i'm gonna be my own boyfriend AND my own grandpa. 04.06.08--2:40 pm- especially on my grandmother's machine. jet-pack grandma lives on 04.03.08--12:28 am- my last year of smoking 04.03.08--12:22 am- i bring new meaning to the phrase, "i am my own grandpa." 04.03.08--12:11 am- snippet 03.21.08--11:55 pm- no more stops and starts. 03.21.08--11:07 pm- large bodies of water make our skin sing. 03.19.08--9:16 pm- "The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own. " — Willa Cather 03.14.08--12:17 am- you could just dive in 03.11.08--12:34 am- I'd come to realize 03.11.08--12:19 am- why i prefer to be single unless i find that rare, wonderful thing: a best friend to partner with. 03.10.08--11:44 pm- that is how it is always done when we are small 03.10.08--11:29 pm- a quick one while he's away 03.10.08--11:22 pm- deep breath 02.26.08--12:09 am- learn about the stuff that was buried 01.18.08--2:42 pm- VINDICATION 01.02.08--1:29 pm- high-five for the day 01.02.08--12:47 am- he wants a nickname. i'm thinking of one. 01.01.08--7:17 pm- far away 01.01.08--7:13 pm- our sno-globe older archives, listed by year and season: 2000: lonely venturan summer 2000: it's fall, i'm falling 2000/01: it doesn't snow where i live 2001: groundhogs, spring fever and a half-cat named bubbles 2001: the last summer of my collegiate life and i'm not allowed to wear jeans 2001: one more fall for my breaking breaking car 2001/02: mean cats, homemade holidays and perpetually flooded apartments 2002: spring is for autism, cats and credit card debt 2002: the first summer of my noncollegiate life and all i wear is jeans 2002: sleepy sad fallen fell fall 2002/03: wimpy winters make for moony oaklanders, let's move downstairs and dream about painting 2003: a spungy spring that soaked up death, taxes and an overabundance of felines 2003: summer makes things either darker or lighter. sometimes both. 2003: everything that doesn't fit is falling behind. 2003/04: static, rain, and more static. wear heavy winter coats. 2004: spring is for reproduction. after the rainstorms stopped, the ducks and geese had their babies, swimming in lines parallel to me as i walked to work each morning 2004: summer road trips, unicorns, the color green, barbeques and bathtubs 2004: fall felt like felted fabric. flush 2004/05: wintre 2005: all after thaw until the year turned 2006: and all of it. 2007: and all of it. and here we are.