The Good Shoes Diaries has been closed, due primarily to my lack of patience with the site's low speed. My day-to-day journal has been opened at Gumbifications. You can still find occasional political commentary at Historicus's Commonplaces.
I'm trying to get back into the swing of things here, but it's not going all that well. There are a lot of reasons for that, most of which I'm not willing to share online....
Interstate 81 seems like an endless highway to me. And this felt like our 81st trip down it. Having seen how many cars were on, I've revised my estimate of when the world's oil...
The Last Resort She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island Where the old world shadows hang heavy in the air She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee Just as her...
My mood has changed, and with it the title to my journal. In truth, I was getting tired of seeing the old one, and after this trip (which is finally almost over), it seems...
I read some letters from the eighteenth century today that left me feeling sad. The men and women of the revolutionary generation suffered a great many misfortunes, and many...
OK, so my friends came home and found us here and were not surprised or irritated. We were able to get the cats in and the toilet unclogged before they arrived, but the house...
I'm sitting here in the basement of my friends' house, trying not to move too much so I'll stay cool, and going over in my mind how I'm going to explain our untimely presence in...
Well, the boiler room, actually. We drove all the way from Hartford, Connecticut through western Massachusetts into the hilly country west of Albany. After stopping in...
Stiff, sore. Have to find a place to stay tomorrow. Don't want to pack. Don't want to hit the road again. Haven't been able to sleep the last two nights in a row, and don't...
Yesterday we took Dean to the airport. As soon as we dropped him off I felt sick with missing him. I honestly thought I was going to throw up. We went on to the Connecticut...
We had a pleasant trip to Old Wethersfield today. I was most enchanted by the old cemetary, behind the first Congregational Church. It has many grave markers from the...
We just got back from our anniversary dinner (all three of us) and I'm a little tipsy from the wine. Robyn and Dean are playing a game of chess in a silly manner and i'm...
Whew! We just got settled in our lodgings in a lovely cottage in the Northeastern "quiet corner" of Connecticut. The first thing I did was get an internet connection...
Tomorrow's the last day of my brief week at home before embarking on another journey. I so totally do not want to do any more of this: . I'm supposed to be washing the...
Robyn, Mom, and I took a walk through our neighborhood of densely packed houses and along the little strip on the way to the pond we found blackberries & picked 'em. How...
It took me a little over 24 hours, but I finally came up with a title for my blog - the Curly Girl Journal. It came to me while I was scrunching my curls for the day and...
Dean and I watched parts of Live 8 yesterday and we really enjoyed the music (especially since we had the luxury of TiVo-ing past the parts where the emcees raved about how...
I really have more pressing matters to attend to today, but creating a web journal has arrested my interest. I've been thinking about updating my web page, but this seems to...
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