Archives for March 2008

Is there a 12-step program that can help me? I was looking for a word today. I couldn’t remember the exact word, but I remembered that it started with logo and it meant something about being focussed on words. I thought I’d blogged about it. So I looked on my blog, but I was scanning. …

Ok. Ok. I say. I guess that’s it. You know the rule. I was referring to the time we were eating dinner in Chena Luna and he told me about his friend who’d broken up with the girlfriend sometime last year, but after a few months, they were back together again. Well–I told him then. …

I’m normally a pretty smart person. Really, I am. I just don’t have a whole lot of common sense sometimes. I have a hot tub in my back yard that I haven’t hooked up yet. During the winter here, there was an awful lot of rain, and the tub was filling up. I felt I …

From my Mum today: Hi All, Guess what we had in the driveway this morning? A big bull moose! Dad went out the back door to get a picture of it. When he saw Dad approaching , he turned and left and went up the road, cutting through the park just beyond our fence line. …

I had an interview last summer with a local company. I’d contracted for them in 2001 and 2002, but this interview was for a full-time position. I was a fit. I knew the engineering team. I knew the technology. I know technical writing. However, I also knew I wanted something more than being, “just a …

She swears by texting. She txts people all the time. It’s the best way she says, especially if you’re fighting with your boyfriend. It takes you all that time to compose that message on the keypad…then you can read it over before you send it…make sure it’s exactly what u wnt 2 say…then–only then–you send …

Conor looked at me in the kitchen the other day. Who are you? he asked. Who are you? He looked directly at me, expecting an answer. I was startled by such a direct question from a five-year-old. I was speechless. I had an existential moment. Who am I? I wondered. Really? Who am I? How …