December 2010
6 posts
Thank You
for all your help with my toddler/death question. <3 <3 <3 You people are amazing.
(ginormo internet hug)
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Serious Question
How would you explain death to a 3-year-old?
She has lost her grandma, a dear family friend, and just this weekend, her other grandma. All to cancer. All in the last two years. (Cancer can go fuck itself, by the way.) She saw them while they were in hospitals and hospice, clearly ill, deteriorating, but is emphatic that they will get better and come back very soon. She is heartbreakingly...
November 2010
5 posts
October 2010
6 posts
September 2010
26 posts
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat...
– Anne Lamott (one of my most favorite people in the history of people)
I do not Tweet. Writing is work, and I take it seriously, and I don’t...
– Tina Fey on TODAY (via today)
rickwebb:
No hatin’ on Tina, but that makes about as much sense as:
I do not Tweet sketch. Writing Painting is work, and I take it seriously, and I don’t necessarily want to be dropping half-baked things into the universe all the time. And I don’t have time — I have...
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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (via misplacedjoanofarc)
Classically Trained Musician Weighs in on Metal... →
utnereader:
Choice quote, on Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden:
He achieves an intensely rhythmic delivery of the lyrics without losing legato and musical momentum, something a lot of classical singers struggle with, especially when interpreting the many staccato and accent markings that crowd scores by Bellini, Donizetti, etc.
Love it! Reblogging because this is my childhood apple pie/porch...
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August 2010
62 posts