Bornfamous

Before I discuss the current strangeness in my own life, I would just like to say how happy I am to learn that dooce is back home after some tough times. I have never been so emotionally involved in another blogger’s life. I really care about that little family, and I’m very glad that Heather [...]

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” –Rilke

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Now that I finally have a car, I find myself getting lost on purpose more and more. Robby or his dad ask me for a ride somewhere, to visit a girlfriend or an emergency room, and I am left with nothing to do except drive after I’ve dropped off my passenger. So I’ve begun to [...]

Love: I Corinthians 13:1-13: I Corinthians 13:1-13
1: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2: And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, [...]

I’ve been trying to understand why, whenever I boldly announce that I’m finally going to write That Book That I Never Write, I suddenly lose all interest in the subject and just wish I had kept my mouth the hell shut. Because I promised myself that I was not going to allow the inevitable lack [...]

Rusty’s on his best behavior so that’s good. He’s mostly staying in Robby’s room watching TV and giving himself insulin shots, and going out on the front steps to smoke. He just cleaned the trash and soda cans out of Robby’s room, which was nice, but then he took it out to the dumpster. And [...]

I am about to go pick up my ex and bring him here to stay for a couple of days while we find him a shelter or someplace better than the streets of El Cajon. Why? because he had his pancreas, half of his stomach and several feet of intestine removed three weeks ago while [...]

“Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.” –gapingvoid: how to be creative

If you’re fat, no one hesitates to keep you constantly apprised of the exact status of your failure.