Badgerings

It's still under construction, so please forgive the mess, but I'll be blogging here.

"I thought maybe you'd fallen off the planet," a friend commented today. I think maybe I had. Or maybe, more accurately, I'd fallen into myself, cocooning in an act of self-preservation and (eventually...) transformation. In some ways, I'm giddy enough from certain things happening in my life right now that I can be a hot-damn-badger-butterfly. Although, in retrospect, I'm probably just...

Yeah -- I have been neglectful of the blog. I haven't felt much like documenting my world lately. I haven't felt like writing. I haven't felt like doing much... But I'm back from vacation -- really, I literally just walked in the door from a very good weekend in Canada. And I'm hoping I can get back to a rhythm of living... and writing. (Thanks to everyone who's emailed to ask if I'm ok....

Although I've sworn recently to friends and family that I am tired of sadness and grieving, I must admit that the holiday hoopla doesn't really foster in me much joy. So again, in lieu of substantive blogging, a meme: This one asks for the first sentence from the first entry of each month of 2006. I think it does a good job highlighting the major events in my life from the year: the grief,...

1. Yourself: lost 2. Your spouse: dead 3. Your hair: curly 4. Your mother: manic 5. Your father: alone 6. Your favorite item: ipod 7. Your dream last night: unattainable 8. Your favorite drink: coffee 9. Your dream car: none 10. The room you are in: cold 11. Your ex: who? 12. Your fear: future 13. What you want to be in 10 years: me 14. Who you hung out with last night: Rav 15. What you're...

Yeah, I'm still here. And yeah, I'm crazy busy. And yeah, I'm sorry I haven't updated the blog lately. And yeah, what with the madness of end-of-term and holidays, you might just have to wait a bit for a bloggier Badger....

casting of my hand.