I bet you didn’t even know that there was a Hat Creek Radio Observatory because Hat Creek is just about the tiniest place in the world, outside of Redding along highway 89. Out in Shasta County, that little almost-town has a radio observatory right in the middle of an itty-bitty valley, just outside of the… Continue reading Hat Creek Radio Observatory
I almost forgot about the lunar eclipse last night. I’ve been staying with my friends, and they were already going to bed when the alarm I’d set for the moon went off. Consequently, I watched the eclipse in happy solitude. The moon was visible from their lawn, and just beginning to seep away into darkness… Continue reading Meditations while Tresspassing to see the Moon
Yesterday, I walked two miles through suburbia to catch a bus to Seattle, then another that took me to Portland, and then another that took me right to the Albany train station. From there, I walked half a mile to Swanson Park where I played on the swings and laid in the grass until my… Continue reading Adventures Begin in a Whirlwind
So my boyfriend, because he’s a sweetheart, brought me flowers when he showed up after being gone three long months, studying in England. They lasted remarkably well this past week while he was here on spring break, but now as he boards a plane at some terminal in the SeaTac airport, and I wake up… Continue reading Entropy’s most beuatiful claim
I have always, always, always been a milk chocolate girl. Put me in a room with dark chocolate and milk chocolate and it’s not even a competition. Occasionally, I’d throw a little white chocolate in there to mix it up and feel ritzy, but that’s it. So naturally it’s weird dating a man who’s a… Continue reading Chocolate Conversions
You might have seen last week that I lost my old friend, Sarah to a hit and run driving accident. I haven’t been blogging much lately for the same reason that I haven’t been doing much school, writing, or anything else. It’s hard to recover from something like that, and unfortunately, Sarah wasn’t the only… Continue reading Pre-Mortem Poem
I just got back from my friend Sarah’s funeral. Hard to believe that after these past fifteen years of friendship she’s really gone. I wrote this poem and ended up giving it to her family…they had someone read it at the service today. Sarah had a distinctive face and a distinctive heart. I’m glad that… Continue reading She Never Wore A Mask
Friday morning, an old friend of mine was killed in the crosswalk just down the street. Sarah Paulson and I met in the second grade, when I was seven years old and had just moved to a new school. I didn’t have any friends, but I still remember seeing her for the first time, a… Continue reading To the Strongest of the Brave Girls
It’s funny how inclined we are to want to hate the people who have hurt us. It’s not any fun, of course, but it’s funny that we should want to feel a negative emotion we can’t will ourselves to feel. Some of us spend so long trying to be angry with people, we just end… Continue reading A Love Poem After the Fact
I love to sing. I spent a few years in a school choir as a teenager, and only left it when I realized I wouldn’t be able to take both it and the accelerated English classes I wanted to. Unfortunately, someone I once very dearly loved convinced me that I couldn’t sing, and put me… Continue reading Karaoke (noun, Japanese): “Empty Orchestra”
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