with the ups, the downs

Previously, I mentioned a seasonal co-worker diagnosed with stage four cancer at the age of 21. Today I was told she had died.It’s totally fucked up, but it would seem I am buffered by adding two good friends to the survivor list. Also, I am two weeks from a personal landmark, which helps hold it […]

allow me to introduce…

…my three oldest friendships. This photo was just posted to Facebook. I assume from the Fourth of July… Odd how cold it was in Cleveland for the start of July. Left to right, this is Bill, Rick and Steve. Bill and I were in the same Cub Scout den sometime around third grade, although we […]

Protected: sunday style – cooling down for cool coats edition

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Protected: just wanted to share…

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Protected: too darn hot!

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I am the witch…

It would seem that at regular intervals, I am brought back to Sondheim’s Into the Woods… Anything can be the launching point for my mind. Anything. I am not having luck finding a form of the song I have rolling through my mind. Perhaps I am remembering it wrong and it isn’t a song at all, […]

Protected: green shirt aloha

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word from chronicpaint

As a personal twist, I wish to add an associated response and then offer the significance of the original word… Dapper – (Kink!) Dapper is as dapper does, I guess. Lately? It may well be the most used adjective when folks comment to me… As with so much of my life, the whole dapper dress to-do […]

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allow me to introduce…

Bob. Okay, yes, I know…. He is surrounded by Bobs. So, let me introduce Robert.I rented a room from Bob for almost three years when I lived in Phoenix. This trip really displayed how much I miss him and the other fine folks I left there when I moved. This trip was due in great […]