In medias res

It was nice, the temporary lull of no one asking me to help them put crap (er, content) on the internet. Then, out of nowhere, came a flood of “please help me” requests. That makes me not want to do any blogging myself.
Instead, I am knitting! Knitting worthless and yet interesting crap! That and drinking [...]

I think that might make a nice tagline for a new blog franchise. ‘Cause, really, that’s all it takes for so much of what’s out there to get posted. Case in point:

A political wannabe who was briefly employed by my old employer has begun writing exposés of that organization on his “blog.” While I loathe [...]

Check out Obama’s new blog at, get this, http://change.gov/newsroom/blog/. Change.gov. Love it. I had never stopped to consider the internet-y power that being the president-elect could confer.

Duke Ellington’s Carnegie Hall rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is coincidentally playing as I make my announcement. That’s right, worthless daily shit is coming! At least for the month of November.

Thanks to being the designated driver last night, I had all my wits about me today and accomplished a lot-ish of things. Things like [...]

Spotted just now on oregonlive.com. I know what the picture should be, but still…this is a really unfortunate caption. The text reads as follows:
Ramsey McPhillips says he spends much of his time cleaning up trash like this from his family property in McMinnville. He says the rubbish is from trucks that haul trash to the [...]

Unseasonably cold here in Portland. Could be worse…the flooding in the midwest is affecting a number of people I know. So, we are lucky. No sun, but no real weather problems either.
Among the sites I own/manage for fun is one for friend, A. She is a medical professional and is starting to “blog” for fun. [...]

Well, rain since September might better describe the weather conditions where I live. I am not made for this dreary climate, and moving back to Texas when I start working on the PhD is sounding more and more tempting. California is too expensive, the east coast is too far…conditions are perfect in Texas. Or maybe [...]

The new job is cool, outside of my terror of security snatching up my laptop if I leave it alone for a second or yelling at me if I take the stairs and forget to hold the rail. In that, it reminds me of kindergarten. We are sort of homeless at this point, meeting in [...]

Yesterday, a person I presume is an employee of Scofield & Scofield, PC in Austin, Texas spent about a half hour reading my blog. The person then commented on this post under the name “Jill Scania.” I did not post the comment itself, which contained a pointless story and ended with a threat to excerpt [...]

If you’re a writer or long-time blogger like me, writing is likely part of the way you process your experiences and identify how you think about the world. It was a no-brainer for me to write about having had an abortion as a way of working through it, and I did so both in a [...]