Friday, October 30, 2009

My dear, wonderful friends

This season has been very hard for many of my closest friends.  Family crisis, health issues, heartbreak -- these things and more are being faced with grace and strength and bravery.
May I support them and offer all that I have to them!
May they have joy and hope today and the best of times tomorrow!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

It's off to work I go

I'm getting ready to head off to my second job as a waitress.  It's a far cry from my week's desk work, and while I don't always relish the six-day work week, I do love the physicality of waiting tables.  
I also enjoy meeting so many people -- it puts me in contact with a huge range of people that I'd never encounter so directly anywhere else.  
And there's something so basic about serving people food and drink.  Maybe it sounds funny, but I think there's honor in serving something vital to life (even if it's a biiiig stretch calling hipster mac-n-cheese and high-end meatloaf "vital to life").

Saturday, October 3, 2009

I am the Walrus


Published: October 3, 2009
Half a century after they began recovering from industrial-scale hunting, walruses are facing a new threat.