Liz

I don’t even know who’s reading this anymore… who makes it a point to swing by on occasion, what sort of total strangers might be stopping by. Maybe that matters, and maybe it doesn’t. I just always try to write with my audience in mind, and I really have no idea who that audience is …

It’s only eight days into this new year, but I’d like to pause for just a moment to recognize the really terrific things that have happened in the last eight days. I finally gained almost total independence from you-know-who. PRAISE ALLAH. It came not a moment too soon. I painted two rooms of my apartment …

It’s about time… About time that I feel optimistic about the weeks and months ahead. About time that my books are unpacked and I can feel the calm that always comes when I’m surrounded by words that mean so much to me. About time that I am putting myself out there, meeting new people, allowing …

Here’s an actual excerpt from today’s e-mail exchange with my oh-so-delightful ex-husband. My laptop access card and his cell phone are still joined at the hip on the same AT&T account, and I spent the better part of an hour today trying to separate them. Anyway, here’s the exchange, with absolutely no editing: Liz: You …

I’m an introvert, but there’s no questioning that I crave connection with other people the way some crave air or beer. My local (nashville) circle is clearly too small, because when someone who’s in the circle goes incommunicado, it gets lonely over here. When two people who are in the circle go incommunicado, it stings. …

It was last Sunday, as I was on an airplane that taxi-ed for a solid 20 minutes in Honolulu (where, I swear, I didn’t think there was enough runway-supplementing road to support 20 minutes of taxi-ing), that it occurred to me that I might well die soon. I was on an airplane with the recently …

“Stalking” people you once dated online? That’s weird. Occasional peeks into their life, to see if anything’s new? Yeah, that’s cool. But daily? Twice daily? Not so much. Just sayin’.

It’s actually pretty bizarre that the Beach Boys song, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” is stuck in my head tonight. I blame the fact that “50 First Dates” was set on (and probably filmed on) Oahu, and so it’s part of the running Hawaii-inspired soundtrack I’ve got going on. The other song is the Ohana version …

Dateline: somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, 10 p.m. CST (roughly 6 p.m. local time … ish) I love travel blogging. Seriously, folks, few things make me happier than sharing with you all my random observations while I’m traveling. This maxim holds generally only when I’m traveling without a specific travel companion; even though my parents …

What are you dreaming of?I want to live where the sunlight lightsFeather-light on my faceI want to leave all this neon and viceBefore the fire inside me dies or finally fades to gray–The Floating Men, “Fade to Gray,” from the album “Tall Shadows” It’s a big day here at Chez Liz — moving day!! In …