lemon ruth

tradition stands:
get trashed alone on the green couch and watch BBC while my family is out at the church new years party. 
five years running.  love it every year.
happy 2009! 

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specific disappointments are starting to stack up in piles next to growing new hopes.
and so i’m here sorting it out.
i’m enjoying this immensely.  spending my days driving familiar roads and ice-biking and going to the movies with sister and catching up with old friends and laughing so much my stomach hurts.
my right leg is currently […]

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tonight i talked to my dad until 2 a.m. about everything that’s been going on.  and in my pathetic teary-eyed state, i told him about the way being treated like i was worthless by one too many guys has made me actually start to feel worthless.  and right then for perhaps the first time in […]

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one year.
 
airports always trigger the strangest emotions in my heart.  
 
one time i fell in love at gate A6 in nashville in a white t-shirt and skinny-jeans with someone’s hand in mine.  and one time my childish world crumbled around me in the concourse in philadelphia in a black dress on the way to say […]

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i’m just sitting here thinking about how i wish there wasn’t snow on the ground so i could wear my slippers to the movies later tonight.  oh well.  you can’t get everything you want, huh?  it’s a hard knock life.
do you see what’s going on here?!  it’s shocking.  
i’m happy.
like disgusting unrestrained sugary-sweet-give-you-a-cavity happiness. 
oh man.

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as it stands, i’m beginning to make peace with the circumstances in my life.  just this morning, i had a huge breakthrough while eating a piece of toast and watching the news. 
this crazy year in seattle has forced me to learn how to hold onto things pretty lightly.  the moment i’m even tempted to grasp onto […]

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hot tea in my favorite mug in my little rickety house with the yellow door.  home.
there are plenty of adventures yet to be had.  and if nothing else, i am so thankful for a new life in a new city.  so so thankful.
this weekend was just what my tired heart needed. lots of wine […]

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