Juxtapose

Sometimes, on those exhausted evenings after we've both come home from work, Mark's creative brain still steaming and my body fatigued from lifting bodies all day, we sit on the couch and don't say anything. I can talk a lot, but Mark quiets me. Sometim… more »

It's been a few years since I whipped up an official Thanksgiving post here, but I find myself very thankful every day for many of the things in my life. Might as well write them down for posterity, to remind myself of them at those weak moments when I… more »

Some recent snaps for your perusal. more »

Watching, via live stream, the Chilean miners being rescued. I have a special place in my heart for all over our more southern neighbors. Watching this has made me smile, cry, and laugh all at once to see wives kissing their husbands gratefully, kids fa… more »

Since my blog has been overtaken by spambots in my longish absence from the blogosphere when I had a short but passionate summer romance with facebook, I will just assume that nobody but the errant wanderer appears here out of some desire to reconnect w… more »

I'm in the midst of a purge phase of life. I'm currently minorly obsessed with the whole minimalist movement, Buy Less Stuff, Zen living, etcetera. I don't take it to nearly the extent that some do, although I think if Mark were on board and I wasn't al… more »

The last nearly-four years of marriage, we've waffled. To stay, or to go - to church, that is. It hasn't been a question of whether or not to go to church, but more whether we should stay at the church I've grow up in, or leave to find the proverbial gr… more »

A dreary and rainy day, but somehow everything had a good positive lilt to it. I got out of my early morning eval with my manager in exchange for one in the early afternoon instead, and after an AM filled with dread, it all seemed to work out when I got… more »

Life is full of things I can't control. My poor little Pookie (as opposed to Mark, my big Pookie) spent the night at the hospital the other day after a week of not being able to keep down anything she ate due to a stomach bug. I was truly worried. As sh… more »

Times have certainly changed, my friends. We've all gotten lazy with Facebooking and Tweeting and putting babies to sleep at all hours of the night. I've gotten lazy. To sit and write seems like a selfish luxury, though nothing could be further from the… more »