Image credit: Photo by crowbert on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons On my wrist is a bright yellow rubber bracelet with LIVESTRONG imprinted on it. I plucked it from a small wicker basket on a table next to a guest book at a memorial service where one of the loved ones spoke about the task [...]
Posts under ‘who can spot my literary allusion?’
A&E’s Intervention
Image credit: Photo by emdot on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've heard a lot about the A&E series Intervention, but since I've never wanted to spring for the cost of satellite or an extended cable package, I'd never actually watched it myself until this week: I followed The Discovering Alcoholic's link to streaming video [...]
February Is the Cruelest Month
Image credit: Photo by luca.candini on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Every year in February, I'm grateful for one thing: it's short. By February, I feel as if spring is so close, yet still so terribly far away, and my mood is generally at its lowest and darkest point in the whole year. So, every [...]
3:30 a.m.
Image credit: Photo byF.S.M. on FlickrLicensed under Creative Commons I've calculated the precise moment at which mothering instincts kick in, and that moment is 3:30 a.m. Actually, I'm extrapolating a little. I'm not sure that it was actually 3:30 a.m. the very first time my own mothering instincts kicked in. I'm not sure what time [...]




