Posted in Life, Philosophy on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Anniversaries can mean many things. Life, death, beginnings, endings. Mostly, they are times for reflection. Reflections are nothing more than inverted images of thoughts. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave he relates how the prisoners caged in the dark know not the truth because they live in the darkness of the cave. The [...]
Posted in Life, Philosophy, tagged tattoos on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Temples in religious history are sites of reverence and wonder. Some of the greatest works of art reside in these places of worship. Michaelangelo’s greatest work was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The structure of temples contains both meaning and art. Again, reverting to the Vatican City, St. Paul’s Cathedral was built not just as [...]
Posted in Life, Places to Go on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thirty. Three. Oh. The Big One. The end of one’s twenties - those years of school and beginning to negotiate one’s way in the grown up world without school. My big three -oh was last Friday, the 15th. I am no longer one of those irresponsible twenty-somethings. I’m Thirtysomething. There used to be a whole tv [...]
Posted in Life, Philosophy, education on February 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago, an email survey went around in which one of the questions asked was, “What did you want to be when you grew up?” The answer given by yours truly was, “teacher or actress. Which turns out? Same thing.” Then, I’m sitting watching a DVD of Connecticut Forum’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the [...]
Posted in Knitting, Life, Philosophy on January 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ever notice that occasionally, something comes along that has the most amazingly simple construction and yet it makes you rethink architecture? The Roman arch, for example. The act of putting stone into the rounded shape that built the aqueducts. The construction is simple. It’s utilitarian. It’s perfect.
This is the best description of Twisted from Knitting [...]
Posted in Life on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
On this first day of 2008, I awoke late to a prophetic new beginning to the new year.
New snow. Just enough to cover up the old, dirty snow, the dog paw prints in the yard, and the vestiges of autumn.
Just like the new year covers up the ugliness of an old year, the new snow [...]
Posted in Life, Philosophy on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ahh, holiday time becomes introspection time here in Casa de Adventure. It’s the time of year when I start reflecting on all the events of the current year. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. As with any year, it has been the best of times and the worst of times, to quote our [...]
Posted in Life, tagged trying to conceive, ttc, women on December 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A little pointy-eared green Jedi once said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” Obviously, he was a man. For some women, trying is all they have. This does not mean that they can only try at work or at school. It means that they are trying to conceive. For some, all they have [...]
Posted in Let's Give 'Em Something To Talk About, Life, Technology on December 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Way all the way back in September, the first CT Forum of the year was all about the internet. Since then, this post has been kicking around and mocking me. It was started in September. That being said, it sat here partially written festering and gestating over the last few months. Finally, it can [...]
Posted in Life on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
As today is Thanksgiving, I thought that I would remind myself all the reasons to be thankful prior to starting the stress of the actual holiday, wherein people will likely pry into my reasons for not, as yet, helping to spawn the next generation. So here, mostly in no particular order, for your viewing pleasure [...]
