Everythng you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

This article has been sent around to the inboxes of many of the Catholic women I know, including my old religion teacher. A month late it arrived in my inbox. I am no longer Catholic. This is one of the big problems I have with not just the Catholic church, but most organized religions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/12/jimmy-carter-womens-rights-equality

John Hughes died today. In honor of his death, my life became a bad teen movie.

I did not learn of John Hughes' death until I returned home at 1 AM. But I now believe that John Hughes, unbeknownst to me, was messing with my life from beyond death. This is the only explanation I can come up with for the night's events.



A huge, overcrowded party with multiple kegs and pounding music. Most of the time I avoid these sorts of parties. They are always busted and never fun. In 80's and 90's teen mo… Continue

[This is weird for me to be blogging here twice in one week*]

My brother, Johnny, is one of my best friends. Sometimes I find myself forgetting that he is my older brother, part of the family that I generally resent. We share the same gene pool, the same brown eyes, and the same childhood. Johnny was born only 13 months before I appeared on the scene. We were close enough in age to be put in the same grade for kindergarten but split up when I was sent to pre-first and Johnny went straight on to… Continue

Last night around six o'clock in the evening I was sitting in my room looking through old pictures. Normally I am not the sort of person to just look through a shoebox filled with old pictures for the sake of reminiscing and in fact that is not what I was doing. I was only looking through the box of photographs to find appropriate pictures to give to my friends as going-away-to-college momentos. However, this task quickly morphed into reminiscing and nostalgic musings on my childhood.

Then, it… Continue

I said I was returning to blogging and here I am. However, I have nothing of particular interest to blog about and so todays is just going to be a grab bag.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/garden/23air.html?8dpc
Not good for my Papa! He owns an AC and Heating company. However, I guess we're hypocritical because we're cutting back on using our central air as well. Nothing really interesting to say about t… Continue