2002 March A. called me today!!! He wanted to know what pages we were doing for math, but CosmoGIRL says that if a guy calls you, it means he likes you. I really hope so!! I hate celebrities. Julia Roberts, Gwen Stefani, Helen Hunt…all those horribly beautiful women. Then, of course, there are Jennifer Aniston, Courtney […]
I come home from grocery shopping with a whole bunch of toys for Zadie that of course she won’t play with. My mother sends me an Easter package but I’m not home, and neither is K, and somehow the package ends up next door with my neighbour- a stranger- who opens the door beaming wearing […]
I haven’t been very active here lately. Things I have been doing: -I just launched a new group blog called Mix’d Messages. Go check it out (if you are so inclined- I don’t want to be too directional or anything)! -Spent some time in Vancouver with my family, my close buds, and my partner. We […]
My heart was a three-ring circus when I woke up on Saturday afternoon. I felt like I had woken up three times before in dreams. In my dreams I was in a big wooden house, tall, fat beams, and sunlight coming through the slats of glass. Everything was a pale milky-white in my dreamscape but […]
You are the kind of person I used to dream about, my head stuck out the car window as we drove East to Alberta the days before my parents got divorced. There was nothing but a long stretch of road, road and street signs with incomprehensible diagrams showing what looked like alien tendrils and monsoons. […]
This building used to be a church. The ceiling is high and vaulted in dark, heavy wood. The fluorescent lights buzz and crackle. Shoes squeak on the linoleum. Craving bodies forced into quiet. spook (n.) 1801, from Du. spook, from M.Du. spooc ”spook, ghost,” from a common Germanic source (cf. Ger. Spuk ”ghost, apparition,” M.L.G. spok ”spook,” Swed. spok ”scarecrow,” Norw.spjok ”ghost, specter,” Dan. spøg ”joke”), of […]
These are my small, partial truths, part of a larger conversation around how we can create movements/communities that nurture and transform, which move us beyond what those in authority tell us is possible. I started ‘community organizing work’ young, and was around a lot of older and more experienced folks, and I am naturally introverted/shy, […]
