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Saturday, 04 September 2010

  • Sometimes readers don't write...

    that's me. I love to read many blogs, yet writing one isn't as much fun. Perhaps i'm on the lazy side, or the private side, or even the non-creative side. I just do not know. What I do know is most of you have shared more than just a small part of your lives here and deserve a cursory view of mine. Well, you've already figured out that privacy is important, so the following is just a tidbit about me: professional teacher, dog lover, cat liker, preparer of fine baked goods, rower of sleek watercraft, life student, not a bad lover, even a better dad, passion for everything i do, a great friend and listener, a helpful neighbor, a not so proud republican, have an eye for beauty in all things, figure everything ugly just needs new paint, tea and coffee drinker, onion hater, don't drink, don't smoke, don't drug--but i did, raised hell as a teen, lost in hell as a young adult, discovered bliss as an adult, working on heaven presently, turn-offs are television preachers and self-absorbed people, turn-ons are nice people with altruistic values, been in love twice in my life, not counting on a third, and finally...................I really like to laugh, so tell me something funny about your life:]

Sunday, 14 February 2010

  • Valentine's is for chocolate

    yes, today is it....i'm definitely off the chocolate for a long time. i've simply run out of reasons to keep breaking down to savor(more like inhale) that chocolate morsel. some people like to drink, party, or enjoy some other rewarding activity. i personally live and breath chocolate; chocolate cake, cookies, candy, chocolate covered carmel corn (found at jacques torres in nyc), cupcakes, chocolate moose, german chocolate cake.......and the list goes on. i'm far from addicted though. why recently I came off a chocolate hiatus of almost two years....i was so proud, then it ended. not sure if it was the chocolate pop tart or a simple glass of milk with oreos. there was that one incident that makes me wonder sometimes. it was a late winter evening and someone put(hid)  a chocolate easter bunny in our freezer at a most inopportune time(also known as the ravenous chocolate craving beast episode). so i discover this treasure and retire to the living room with said rabbit on a paper plate. oh, did i mention the knife??? how else was I to section this beast into chewable portions? as you might be thinking by now, that plan was well suited for revision. funny, that's what the er doctor thought. lessons learned: a freezer is a really lame place to hide a chocolate treat(can be found by any amateur) and use the microwave to soften frozen treats...the knife injury could have happened to anyone :) 
    so it's the end of another valentine's day and i hope you've enjoyed your chocolate. mine is digesting and tomorrow is the beginning of another chocolate fast :[

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

  • toads

    tonight i really needed to get out. the house was hot, and since we just had a thunderstorm it seemed so much cooler outside. put the lights on my raleigh, grabbed a helmet and soon noticed a flat front tire……..oh, I just switched it out with another one and was soon on my way. quick releases were definitely made in heaven. most of the ride was on the roadway but some brought me through a state park. at about the halfway mark it started to get dark which wasn`t really a problem. some of it included a new route, with potholes and narrow shoulders. it turned out to be a good workout, about ten miles total. my only fear was not the dark night or the cars or those potholes or june bugs, but toads. big toads, little toads, tiny toads……..they just sit there, on the road and wait, apparently for me, to ride by, without squashing them. the front light illuminates about ten feet of road. that gives me a full second to avoid them, which I am good at. so later, as I managed a back float in the pool, while looking up at cloud covered stars and letting water muffle all night sounds…toads hopped freely along the roadside, and I was happy to have seen them...

Friday, 14 August 2009

  • what's not in the picture

    today...the last few days, weeks, even more than a month....i've changed the way i feel about things and people. not really sure where all this is coming from...the past has been way more passionate, reactive, possibly even emotional. that's the way i process life; feeling, waiting for the feeling to hit me, never completely giving in to mindful decisions. i have always trusted my internal feelings to guide me...impressions, intuition, or just a sense about something. have i lost something??? will it come back? i hope so........i like feeling life, even if it hurts at times.....................

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  • why is it that everything in my life seems to be a challenge to overcome these days? where is the peace i once enjoyed, expected, loved?
  • today i let myself daydream without self correction. it was my day ,after all...and we were together at last...midnight approaches:/