Kerry Forward
The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates
Yesterday, I had a visit from a private investigator. She came into my home, sat on my couch and asked me fifteen minutes worth of questions while my cat rubbed his head on the zipper of her notepad portfolio. She had a leather badge cover and real federal “credentials.” I vacuumed before she got there. […]
Clean bathroom, new shower curtain and liner, new memory foam bathmats; lunch with Mom and Kristin; two new sugar free syrups for my coffee. Warm house, cold night.
“No! That’s how everybody does it!” -Drake, when I asked him if it was wrong to wash down antidepressants with wine
1. I would like to have one. This is not because I want people to talk about how great I am, but it’s because I want to give them a chance to be ceremonious about saying goodbye. 2. Please shop around. Buy my casket from Costco, or whoever has the best deal (just not Walmart, […]
A college professor I had really loved this poem, and I really love it, too. Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain Richard Brautigan, 1968 Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds […]
The autumn night is long only in name– We’ve done no more than gaze at each other and it’s already dawn. -Ono no Komachi
I CARRY YOUR HEART WITH ME i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world […]
This morning was particularly painful due to several of my regular co-irkers engaging in a disturbing mixture of 1. loud and at-length fingernail clipping at one’s desk (at LEAST four “clips” per nail), 2. a heinously boring webinar being watched at max-volume (HEADPHONES PEOPLE!), and 3. one person’s yelling at me about a serious issue […]
On Day 6, which was Friday, I did half of Start It Up. During the water break, I decided to sit on the couch, and I just watched all the rest of the workout from there. Ineffective! Saturday I didn’t do anything. Shameful.