An Ode To Dalton

Dalton is my everything. He is my friend. He is my family. He is my cat. He is my confidant. He is my therapist. He is my everything. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in this fight for nine years together. From the moment I saw the little fuzzball sitting in a cold, sterile [...]

City Lights

Last night I took a sudden car trip with Shawn to one of his job site’s in downtown Los Angeles. While Shawn did a building inspection I sat in the van. I ate Cheetos. I ate a package of Hostess crumb donughts. I drank one Snapple Peach Tea. I drank one large Arizona tea, peach [...]

Hope

I learned a long time ago that the color yellow represents hope. Hope and Friendship. I think those are admirable qualities to have. And I think they are the perfect qualities to have for a pair of socks that are going to a friend.

Rosamond Socks
Sundara Sock Yarn in Daffodil
US 2 Needles
Stats: Knit 7 leg repeats [...]

Everything is Golden

My most favorite part of the day is in the evening when the sun is setting. The sky lights up in the most fantastic colors. Some nights the light is muted, pastel pinks, oranges and sometimes a minty green. Other nights the light is vibrant, Day Glow colors, gold, bright orange.
As Jem starts his first [...]

In Forty Eight Hours

In forty eight hours I
watched one Joan Crawford movie
read 160 pages of a new library book
stayed awake til four a.m. on Saturday night/Sunday morning
made nine cheese enchiladas
changed into warm clothes twice
lit four candles on the coffee table
washed two comforters
bounced a ball with Scout
knit four lace repeats on my February Lady Sweater
cleaned up five milk and [...]

Coming To Terms

Hi. My name is AJ and my mother is an alcoholic.
For as long as I’ve known my mother she has been an addict in some way or another. Before I came along it was heroin. After that it was marijuana. Now it’s alcohol. But when I was little and we first moved to California I [...]

Simplicity

It seems forever ago but I still remember my first memory like it was yesterday. When we still lived in Chicago my mom worked as a typesetter at a magazine and at a pharmecutical company. My dad on the other hand didn’t do much of anything. He never worked a day in his life. So [...]

Explore

Most of the time I don’t understand this world. I don’t understand how our society has evolved into what it has become. What it may become. Today Shawn, Scout, and I took a trip to the grocery store. Lately we’ve been taking daily trips. I’m finding that we spend less money on our grocery bill [...]

Regrets

So very rarely in life have I ever felt any type of regrets. I always felt that the Universe did things for a reason and even if I did not, could not, would not, understand it I would just go with the flow. I could wait on explanations. But lately, I’ve felt betrayed. Both by [...]