I’ve blogged about my absolutely favorite perfume (une touche de nafnaf) before, but what I failed to mention is that I’ve spent most of the last 12 or 14 years engaging in some really serious rationing of the lone bottle I’ve got. I love it so much, but it’s impossible to find anymore, having long …

Sitting on the patio at Cafe Coco until 3:30 a.m. Observing the asymmetrical nail patterns in a sign for a place called Symmetry Trying to come up with a palindrome for the concept of symmetry Being right about a word’s meaning, in spite of myself Camping in tents Joe Rogan Bach “A Walk in the …

I now knew how pointless it was trying to pretend that I didn’t still feel something for her. It didn’t make sense to love her. I’d weighed the pros and cons a million times, and the results were always the same: I needed her. She was no good for me, she didn’t want me to …

Indeed.

…this would be the title track. And I really, really, really needed to listen to this song tonight.

In early December 2008, my world was rocked when someone came into my life who completely changed the way I saw the world. And then, said person disappeared without any warning or explanation. I was devastated. Today, some 14 months later, I got my long-overdue heartfelt (and convincing) apology. Better late than never, eh?

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 …