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Moving van 29 Jan 2013 | 12:09 am
I’ve moved! From now on please visit- The Indispensable Nobody. http://hltin.blogspot.com/ to keep up with my rantings. I thank you kindly for your interest. over and out.
The Year of the Smartass 8 Jan 2013 | 02:44 am
Things are looking up. Looking up indeed. Since despite all Chinese Calendars telling me otherwise, 2012 for me was apparently the Year of the Anxiety Attack. And this was a rousing follow-up to the...
The Indispensable Nobody (or- another HL Birthday Blog) 14 Jul 2012 | 01:30 am
I’ve been talking a lot to my dad and to my therapist and my manager, my husband—I suppose anybody who will listen—about the recent discovery (well, partial proof of existence) of this thing in physic...
On my S^&% List 10 Jul 2012 | 08:42 am
O- sometimes it’s the lists that present themselves as the best possible means of true expression when all else fails. When the brain appears to not be able to focus on one topic long enough to eloqu...
a container to pour myself into 26 Jun 2012 | 06:04 am
I’ve been crying on and off for about 36 hours now. More or less. And really it’s been weeks, maybe even months since my last crying. Since the last good run. See, crying comes on for me like hicc...
The Fake Plastic Love Song of H. Alfred Long 1 Jun 2012 | 02:59 pm
I cannot think of a more beautiful poem than The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I had the distinct aching joy of a re-introduction to it today as I sat basking in a sea of my favorite songs of all ...
Skin In The Game 21 Apr 2012 | 08:15 am
When I was in my twenties, I had the strange privilege and the desperate misfortune of living through a particularly deadly health disorder called Endocarditis. It’s a massive bacterial infection of t...
Broken Foot or You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks 14 Apr 2012 | 12:25 pm
It has been with much humility, and not a whole lot of grace that I have had to accept hobbling around on my orthopedic boot for the past four weeks after ONCE AGAIN causing a hairline stress fracture...
The Enlightened Motherfucker 20 Mar 2012 | 08:23 am
Apparently Mercury has been in retrograde for some days. And if I really knew anything solid about what that meant, I’d probably write more about it, and perhaps already have some sort of an astrolog...
Tribute to Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger” 9 Mar 2012 | 10:04 am
I am now settled down snug in this tiny Parisian café seat that makes me feel like a giantess in my gangly, nearly 5’11” frame. My favorite peach wall colored Westside coffeehouse buzzes with the hum ...
