Smoldering Wick

This year, because my brother the pilot is flying on Christmas, our family will celebrate three days late. I still have the day off work, th...

Last week was awful. There were a couple of profound disappointments, in a week that was supposed to be enjoyable; it contained a huge eve...

As a kid, "Christmas spirit" to me meant feeling like the season was special and exciting, and enjoying the specifics of it as spe...

I gave a performance based on my decision to let go on 11/22/13, and there is a video of it now on YouTube. I call it "Miss Chestnut....

You know what can really mess with my head? @#$%$# compliments. Just as I decide I'm going to step back from something that's stre...

I resurrected this blog because I had some issues to work through regarding happiness and this felt like the place to do it. Things have rec...

After 8 1/2 years of living with roommates, I was ready to be on my own again. Of course, I live in Boston, which means that I can't aff...

Apparently, one's podcast disappears if it falls into disuse for too long a time. I let Holly's PodCandy lapse because I wasn't ...

When I restarted this blog almost two weeks ago, I had all sorts of stuff that I wanted to process here. And it's still running through ...

I just learned that I missed my twenty-year high school reunion. I got no invitation, and saw nothing on Facebook apart from one oblique ref...

     In the movie Shadowlands , the idea that "we read to know we are not alone" was posited to C.S. Lewis by one of his students....

Hello, All. Long time, no see! This is mostly because I started my new job, and that keeps me busy. It's also because I like the job, an...

I got a job! But I don't have to do it yet. When I wrote the last post, I had interviewed/auditioned for a position that I thought c...

Unemployment has pretty much rocked so far. Not to oversimplify it or anything. but it has. I don't assume that this is the case for e...

I want to be happy. I've decided. That was my big revelation today. I went back to get prayer at church, because I'm a prayer junk...

I am dogsitting for a Treeing Tennessee Brindle named Rohan while his people parents (two of my former roommates) are on their honeymoon. He...