- Let’s move, I said. Let’s go live somewhere else. Let’s go south, where there are plenty of job opportunities for the both of us, where the surroundings are beautiful and everything is so much closer. My gypsy soul is feeling restless and trapped in this town. I have lived here for a total of 17 [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
Jan 20
on the road again
The sun was shining from a clear blue sky, for the first time in months, so we sat in the car: One behind the wheel, one on the passenger side, one in the back. We drove for fifty kilometers until we reached a small town where we’d never been before, then we stopped, ate hot [...]
Jan 19
the wanderer
‘Cause I’m a wanderer, yeah a wanderer I roam around around around around around around – Beach Boys I’m bored out of my mind. Bored with this town, bored with this weather, bored with this apartment and this country and everything. I want to get away, if only for a day or two. I want [...]
Jan 16
live now
It’s long, but it’s f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c. Take the time to watch this fenomenal last lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer. I saw him on Oprah today and just had to share. Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Also featured on the show was Kris Carr – an amazing [...]
Jan 12
I believe I can fly
One of my favorite books as a little girl was Silver Wings for Vicki. I have lost track of how many times I read it, but let’s just say that I read it enough times to still remember all the details about Vicki Barr, her very handsome pilot lover Dean Fletcher, the mysterious Burton and [...]
