I did this tarot reading for Wookie last Friday. I had to give a demonstrative speech for my Com 101 class and the only thing I could think to demonstrate was a Tarot reading. Wookie was gracious enough to be my guinea pig... not that it was much of an experiment seeing as I've been doing this for 10 years now. However, I thought I would post the reading up here.. who knows... maybe in a year I'll be able to finally look at a complete reading and see where I was right and where I was wrong. Y...

Today was my momm's visitation at the funeral home. I tried to remember all of the lessons my mom taught me about me about being a gracious hostess. I think I did alright in that regard. At least that's what I'm hoping. Those were two of the most difficult hours in my life. My sister and I made a photo collage of different pictures we had of Momma, including a baby picture of her and some pics of her when she was 10 years old. My mom's family had always told me that I looked just like her...

I wrote this about a week or two ago now and I meant to post it a while ago. I'm posting it now and then I plan on posting again about the stuff I'm going through with my family. But, this is something I wrote and I thought it was worth sharing, so there you go. --- How to become a corporate shill in three easy steps I don't know exactly when I sold my soul to corporate America. I'm sure it happened in stages, that there isn't any one single quantifiable event that massively marked my t...

My mom died Thursday afternoon with me there holding her hand. We're going to bury her on Tuesday. There are so many raw emotions that I haven't expressed yet that I thought I would start trying to blog some of them out... but now that I start typing I'm choking up and unable to see the keyboard. I know that's it going to be important for me to get all of this out of me, but I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to be able to start processing all of this. I'm just so numb right now... and I kn...

This started as a reply to a post on my blog entry titled "Pardon my Freudian Slip." However, it ended up being really long and semi-obsessive and more or less fairly interesting to talk about, so I thought I would go ahead and post it up. I'll be blogging again later tonight most likely to talk about general life stuff, but this had to get posted soon, so here you go. Make of it what you will. I haven't really got a chance to talk to him since he was over here on Saturday night. We chit ...

One of life's little random quirks - the human need for communication. It always feels like there is this overwhelming compulsion to constantly talk or express ourselves in some way. Blogs are one of the ways that we satisfy that urge. It seems like I always have this constant dialouge in my head. Sometimes it's a narration of my day, i.e. I'm thinking about what I have to do at work, or what I'm going to say in a post or something like that. Other times it's far more reflective, i.e. when I ...

This is quite conceivably the dorkiest thing I'm ever going to say about anything, but I'm going to say it. This is a journal of my journey as a human being - both the milestones and the pitfalls. I've been thinking a lot about some of the things that I've gone through recently and I have to admit that I'm quite proud of myself at this stage. I'm a reasonably decent person. I'm friendly, generally happy, perky and caring. I'm just me, and that's all I can be. I'm not a beauty by any standard ...