May 2011
2 posts
Here's to you...my one follower.
I started this blog as a stream-of-consciousness rambling forum…one that I may update as haphazardly as the thoughts from my head are spewed. Do I really think about what I write and whom it may affect? Heck no. Reckless abandon reigns on this page…until now. Now I feel I have a duty to spew thoughtful prose upon this blank screen because of you—my one faithful follower. I...
Do we REALLY die?
The cousin I spoke of on April 6 has died. I’m not sure of the details, but it has been an agonizing month. He was 42. He leaves an 18-month-old daughter, a young wife, devastated parents and siblings; countless heartbroken cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces. And then there was his extended family. He belonged to a Medieval Re-enactment Club where he cultivated deep, life-long...
April 2011
4 posts
I will maintain...
Just got a call from one of my husband’s friends with news that his wife is in the hospital. What the hell??? It’s like every time I set goals for myself—such as maintaining happiness and sanity in a world gone mad—something or someone comes along to test my strength. Um, hello. I just started this conscious stream of thinking. Give me a break with the bad news. Will...
Steven Rachman →
Brain Tumor
The following is a place where my friends and family can go to donate money for Steven Rachman. He’s my cousin who was diagnosed with a brain tumor within the last day. Thing is, he lives in CHINA and has no health insurance. Ideally, his mom and dad would like to get him home to have him treated here in the United States. It’s a sad situation. He has a Chinese wife and brand new...
Ima Valleys Gurl--fer sher, fer sher!
I am originally from the San Fernando Valley which is also home to the Sherman Oaks Galleria. I spent a lot of my teenage years lurking at that mall—like any good, card-carrying SFV girl did—but as my world expanded and my career led me to nest in other suburban and rural locales, I realized that the world isn’t bounded by Ventura Boulevard to the south and Rinaldi Boulevard to...
March 2011
2 posts
“I hate good-byes.”
– Lloyd Christmas
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