friday afternoon

nana nana nana na na   boom boom boom okay. is this about me? or the world? 5975 songs in my itunes library and only one with birthday in the title? now that is…dunfordly! more celebrations please! get up and dance! you say it’s your birthday okay then. woke up early and dove into the [...]

going…going…gone? hey there! welcome to the last update! of 2008. yep. time flies when you are having fun, eh? and now that we are in the home stretch, it’s worth remembering one important thing…it ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings! dude…are you ever going to learn to talk straight? probably not. however, i do [...]

home sweet home after a week of long days, sleeping in the spare room of my dear friends kami and akesha, i’m settling into a period of relative stability in roslindale, on fairview street, which does indeed have a fair view, and which also leads up a hill and then down a hill straight in [...]

psst… well i got a secret but can i keep it i better cross my heart and hope to die —stacey earle not a happy secret, i’m sorry to say. and unlike the general theory of secrets (yours are mostly forgotten, never revealed; mine simply the latter), this one has a half life of a [...]

fit hits shan! rowan, my three and a half year old, has been working the countdown lately, something like “ready, set git, go!” in that spirit i’m talking about the week when the fit hit the shan! and that would be this week, of course, as it is friday and that’s what we do on [...]

monday morning motivator: the why good morning and welcome to the monday morning motivator. since this is a new project and you are taking the time to be involved, i thought i would take a moment to fill you in on my motivation for starting this thing up. seven weeks ago (7 weeks already?!) i [...]

stolen car 5 hours down, from noon thirty ystdy. 3 hours and fifteen minutes back, from 10:45 this morning. ninety something songs. lot’s of space for rocking out, mournful loss, hopeful exuberance, wounded anger, cocky optimism, tearful disappointment… it’s been a week of constant reminders that our thoughts and our emotions are intimately connected to [...]

careful what you ask for reported a month ago that i was clearing some psychic space to create a work-free saturday, through the simple act of creating this friday afternoon update, and that a couple of weeks after i began that project i hit a partial and freed up my saturday mornings. well…that was before the current [...]

i’d love to turn you on a flurry of activity this week, shifting, changing, questioning, initiating, all in time for the biggifying energy of the full moon. let’s get on with it. woke up, got out of bed instituted a new morning routine this week; a phase-in toward a full-on upgrade next week. the major [...]