This is The Thing

That means “ragged cap” in Italian. The only reason that I know this is because, back in 1979 I created a journaling device — I called one particular journal “The Journal of Mutarenome” (The Journal of Change Name). In this journal, I referred to everyone that I wrote about by a pseudonym, usually in Italian, [...]

Okay — there are two votes, for three posts. To “s*” and “babs” — thank you for your comments. I shall now undertake to address them. I’ll start with this one –”Getting Full” — then: “Censioso Berreto” — then:”Why I have not shaved my head recently”. This is a post I began November 30th, 2005 [...]

I needed to back up my blog anyway, so I spent pretty much this whole Sunday creating a chronological archive of my blog entries. (Cause I didn’t have anything else to do? Well . . . No.) One of the things I don’t like about most blog software is that the posts are arranged with [...]

. . . . response, that is. Last week, I got two comments on my blog — this one, from anonymous– and this one, from oddyseus. It’s been a week and three days since I posted an entry, (yes, I know — I promised myself — again — that I would blog daily) and I’ve [...]

I’m thinking of a line in the movie Magnolia. TJ Mackey (Tom Cruise) is sitting in an interview with a reporter who has just lambasted him with the truth of his past. She has exposed him as a fraud and a liar, and as she systematically goes through her evidence, he becomes increasingly and more [...]

In the past week, when I’ve been blogging, stories have risen in my head — the coyote story triggered the raccoon story triggered the Glen Miller story — stories that I’ve wanted to tell in that moment, connections to connections — but it would have just busted up the momentum and meaning of the post. [...]

I just want to state for the record, right off the top, that I am definitely a madwoman. There can be no doubt about this whatsoever, as far as I’m concerned. Plus, it is a thing in which I take great pride. I will also say that I am not crazy. I have been crazy, [...]

Okay — this is it — the post I’ve been cogitating about for eight days now. It’s in two parts — the first part was written between 5/6 and 5/9, and the second part today. Between 5/9 and today, I’ve been slogging up HeadCold Mountain, and I generally felt too stupid to post at all. [...]

Okay — Remember how yesterday I said that I was pondering an issue, and I wasn’t done? Well, I’m still not done. I’m picking up, however, on a trend within myself. Last Fall and Winter, I was wrestling with similar situations (wherein blogging involved discussing personal situations that would be anonymous to most, but would [...]

I’ve been working on an entry for today that is giving me some thorny, thoughtful quandaries. I’m not done with it yet — still, I want to honor my commitment to myself to blog every day. So, I will give here only a small report of the day, and continue thinking thoroughly through the issue [...]