<p>[Utah’s &#8220;Mount Doom&#8221;, courtesy of the 8/2018 California fires a thousand miles away. Even the air knows we’re all connected]. After my divorce in 2007, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy every year. James (my ex-h) is actually the one who initially said circa 2006 “I bet you’d like the LOTR movies” and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[Utah’s &#8220;Mount Doom&#8221;, courtesy of the 8/2018 California fires a thousand miles away. Even the air knows we’re all connected]. After my divorce in 2007, I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy every year. James (my ex-h) is actually the one who initially said circa 2006 “I bet you’d like the LOTR movies” and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is beautiful. In the article it says that this “fluid” would have negative mass—rather than being attracted to other mass, would be repelled by it—to where if we pushed on it, it would move towards us. I love that the universe is more than humanity could ever know. It makes me feel reverent in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is beautiful. In the article it says that this “fluid” would have negative mass—rather than being attracted to other mass, would be repelled by it—to where if we pushed on it, it would move towards us. I love that the universe is more than humanity could ever know. It makes me feel reverent in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is beautiful. In the article it says that this “fluid” would have negative mass—rather than being attracted to other mass, would be repelled by it—to where if we pushed on it, it would move towards us. I love that the universe is more than humanity could ever know. It makes me feel reverent in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>This is beautiful. In the article it says that this “fluid” would have negative mass—rather than being attracted to other mass, would be repelled by it—to where if we pushed on it, it would move towards us. I love that the universe is more than humanity could ever know. It makes me feel reverent in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was just texting someone who has money, time, a good relationship, the wiggle room to reinvent herself after a solid career who’s selling her million dollar home so that her husband can take his dream job in Washington DC where they’re flying to this weekend to shop for a new house they can definitely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was just texting someone who has money, time, a good relationship, the wiggle room to reinvent herself after a solid career who’s selling her million dollar home so that her husband can take his dream job in Washington DC where they’re flying to this weekend to shop for a new house they can definitely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I was just texting someone who has money, time, a good relationship, the wiggle room to reinvent herself after a solid career who’s selling her million dollar home so that her husband can take his dream job in Washington DC where they’re flying to this weekend to shop for a new house they can definitely [&hellip;]</p>

<p>And it was a time of great vulnerability.&nbsp; But I didn’t know it then. Because at age 20, away at college, and in love with the future, I couldn&#8217;t yet see anything except through the embedded resilience of youth and the dream that I knew myself well enough to be able to navigate hardship. So [&hellip;]</p>

<p>And it was a time of great vulnerability.&nbsp; But I didn’t know it then. Because at age 20, away at college, and in love with the future, I couldn&#8217;t yet see anything except through the embedded resilience of youth and the dream that I knew myself well enough to be able to navigate hardship. So [&hellip;]</p>

<p>And it was a time of great vulnerability.&nbsp; But I didn’t know it then. Because at age 20, away at college, and in love with the future, I couldn&#8217;t yet see anything except through the embedded resilience of youth and the dream that I knew myself well enough to be able to navigate hardship. So [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Things to be grateful for today: That my puffy eyes from allergies haven’t totally sealed themselves shut. I have the gift of sight. That I caught the drip of watery-snot before it hit my mouth when I bent over to retrieve my sunglasses from the street. That I didn’t step on said sunglasses and kill [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Things to be grateful for today: That my puffy eyes from allergies haven’t totally sealed themselves shut. I have the gift of sight. That I caught the drip of watery-snot before it hit my mouth when I bent over to retrieve my sunglasses from the street. That I didn’t step on said sunglasses and kill [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Things to be grateful for today: That my puffy eyes from allergies haven’t totally sealed themselves shut. I have the gift of sight. That I caught the drip of watery-snot before it hit my mouth when I bent over to retrieve my sunglasses from the street. That I didn’t step on said sunglasses and kill [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[2016] The first coat I &#8220;stole&#8221; this year: black, enormous, hideous, belonged to James; acquired when he mistakenly included it in the three bags of the girls&#8217; dirty laundry he dropped off into my entryway last December; naturally I kept it, and wore it right in front of him several times, because piss off, douche: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[2016] The first coat I &#8220;stole&#8221; this year: black, enormous, hideous, belonged to James; acquired when he mistakenly included it in the three bags of the girls&#8217; dirty laundry he dropped off into my entryway last December; naturally I kept it, and wore it right in front of him several times, because piss off, douche: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[2016] The first coat I &#8220;stole&#8221; this year: black, enormous, hideous, belonged to James; acquired when he mistakenly included it in the three bags of the girls&#8217; dirty laundry he dropped off into my entryway last December; naturally I kept it, and wore it right in front of him several times, because piss off, douche: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[2016] The first coat I &#8220;stole&#8221; this year: black, enormous, hideous, belonged to James; acquired when he mistakenly included it in the three bags of the girls&#8217; dirty laundry he dropped off into my entryway last December; naturally I kept it, and wore it right in front of him several times, because piss off, douche: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I don’t know how I came to make my living as a pet sitter.  I really don’t.  I love animals but have an undergraduate degree in psychology and a Masters degree in teaching; after my divorce, I was committed to being a teacher.  Went back to school, got a para job in the public schools; [&hellip;]</p>