Archive for the General Category
I owe you better
Jan 20th, 2010 Posted in General | one comment »This tiny post is just to say that I owe you better… than a whiny paragraph or two. A real blog post is forming in my mind, but it’s taking its time, just as all of my equilibrium is taking its ever-lovin’ time to manifest itself once more.
My fuzzy head is rising out of the [...]
Why my blog has been asleep
Jan 12th, 2010 Posted in General | one comment »Because I have been in a state of attempted concatenation for the past four months.
Not quite half a gestation period, but long enough to realize that attempting to concatenate is not all that pleasant.
Everything is up in the air, and I will write some more another day. It’s enough that I am writing this today.
Because [...]
The Falling Leaves
Oct 16th, 2009 Posted in France, General, News, Personal | one comment »The Falling Leaves.
Falling is a noun, Leaves is a verb.
The struggle of adapting to a new life in Paris is giving way to a tentative sense of relief that I’m actually able to… adapt. At almost 50, it’s somewhat daunting to have to make such drastic changes in lifestyle. I suddenly have more sympathy for [...]
A day of encounters
Oct 4th, 2009 Posted in France, General, Personal | 2 comments »
Today I met four people I didn’t know yesterday, and am very happy for it indeed.
But let me preface this by saying that last night I read the first pages of a book by Neale Donald Walsch (of “Conversations With God” fame) called… “When Everything Changes, Change Everything.” In this book, he offers exercises – [...]
Birthday and beyond
Sep 28th, 2009 Posted in France, General, News | 4 comments »
Well, no email, nothing happening on the web, everybody either asleep or gone off to work… Maybe it’s time for another blog post?
I’m writing this from the Perche, at 6:30 or so in the morning. Huh? you may ask. Don’t, it’s boring. Just insomnia, thinking about all of the o-so-icky administrative stuff I have to [...]
Idle Days are Over
Sep 10th, 2009 Posted in General, News, Personal, USA | 2 comments »
I’ve been here in Maine for several weeks and have spent most of my time being determinedly on vacation. From just about everything. I’ve been eating, drinking, playing, sleeping, watching TV, sleeping, eating, drinking, playing… and that’s about all. And yet as I sat down to write this, I realized that I could spend hours [...]





