white noise

June seems to want to take the Busiest Month of the Year award. Life on the East coast gets hotter and wetter, so this week I’m trading the sauna in for a convection oven and flying out to California to spend time with friends and family. I used to love flying, but these days it […]

…keep his armies during the winter? In his sleevies!

I’m in one of those spaces inside myself where I begin to wonder if everyone is oblivious, or if perhaps I’m invisible. It’s quiet in here, and although the world roars with life around me, I observe it as though removed from it, and I wonder, is this the true essence of loneliness?

It is dreadful that Blacksburg — a “small” town — can make headlines due to tragedy twice in less than a year. Prayers to the victims of today’s Virginia Tech shooting and their families. This end of town has been quiet and I’ve only just heard the news. It was a brighter day before I […]

Not that it’s front page news, or even noteworthy, but I feel a little rotten. I’ve been trying hard to keep some pretty greenery in the house to make it look, well, livelier. Jon had a plant that needed a little TLC, and though my effort has been minimal, it was holding its own. I […]