The Dish and the Spoon - 3

Distant, she had said. That is what she said she feels I am these days. I watched the ground some as I chewed these thoughts in my mind, trying to process everything. Maybe I was, probably I was. It was something I hated to face, didn't want to believe. The beads of asphalt continued to race past beneath me as I churned the pedals of the bicycle, moving ever onward. I squinted back up into the freezing winds, gripping the rubber...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey! Happy day, everybody! I'm in Florida at my grandparents' farm for the first time in almost two years to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. As per our own tradition, every year we come down here to the panhandle in the Bonifay area and my aunts and uncles on my dad's side all gather together to stay at "Grandma and Grandpa's." Last night was our first full day and we filled the morning with catch, mudpies, croquet and...

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Only a Little Dysfunctional

Hello All! This week has been a particularly good one, but also unbelievably full and stressful =P I don't know who is the one who first told me this (probably my own dear mother) but I am very good at not being bored because I can...

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The Dish and the Spoon - 2

I’ll always have a great deal of respect for the power of forward physical motion in tapping the stowed tanks of energy and keeping you going, even when the main valve is running on fumes or just the memory of fumes at all. Of course, caffeine also helps. I took another sip of my vanilla Frappuccino and decided that if today was not my day to be manly, I might as well make it my day to be cool, drinking the rich flavors that inspired...

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The Dish and the Spoon - 1

There I sat, listening to the soft humming sound of the vacuum cleaner as the man in the gray shirt pushed it along, cleaning the carpet of the dining area. The windows became translucent mirrors around us as the last rays of sunlight turned into the blackness of the falling twilight and sleepy frustrated students massaged their temples before the glowing screens of their laptops and the stationary papers scattered across the...

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A Few Adventures Later

Hello! Well, so a part of me hoped to keep better consistency of this blog thing, but the other knows that no harm is done in my persistent procrastination just as long as the project completed by the due date is awesome and I am...

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