Progress apace

Updates continue… have the beginnings of my blogroll, mostly faith-related at this time but will be expanding gradually.
The archives are slowly coming up to par. Much of what I’m doing right now is migrating livejournal posts in from my old Deviathan journal and then editing both old gallycat posts and deviathan posts to reflect the [...]

I really wrote that?

I was really into writing reflections back in 2005, before I had any idea what I was doing. I’m going through the process of importing and cleaning up archives, and found this one that I wanted to share on the nature of being right and wrong, originally published on Livejournal in October of 2005.

Ten years after the apocalypse

Well that didn’t work.
Try this the old fashioned way. I know a couple who are having problems because one person’s behavior was hurting the other and the former didn’t understand why. Too often, people think of “cheating” as being sexual infidelity, but it can take other forms; if a couple is accustomed to trusting each [...]

Missing connections

Wondering if any of my Virginia connections know the Rev. Anne Coghill MacNabb, ’cause I went to high school with an Anne Coghill and I’m wondering if it’s one and the same. She had long, wavy hair and there’s a fuzzy image in the Sept. 2004 Virginia Episcopalian of the Rev. MacNabb, who also has [...]

The matter of privacy

I always struggle with how much to talk about here. Lately, more of it has been coming out in comments at other places. And I still find myself wrestling with it.
I have had some really awful things happen to me over the years at the hands of people who ostensibly loved me. And I don’t [...]

Biding time

I am so in limbo.
Saturday faithspaces didn’t happen this week, partly because of that limbo. Actually, it has more to do with discovering that my Nikon USB cable has a short in it, and a standard mini USB doesn’t work with my model. Ah well.
But limbo. I feel so out of sorts.
We went househunting at [...]

getting on the bandwagon

Something ms. clayton posted got me to thinking. I have gone through a lot of “favorite band” phases. For no reason whatsoever, I'd like to document them here.
1982-1986: Duran Duran
1986-1988: The Damned
1987-1990: U2 (with some overlap with Depeche Mode)
1990-1993: Peter Murphy and Peter Gabriel
1994-2001: NIN with a short flirtation with Apoptygma Berzerk
2001-2003: VNV Nation and [...]

freakzors

i have not forgotten that i was loudly broadcasting my atheism as recently as fall 2002. don't ask me why the then-love-of-my-life's abrupt departure from my life essentially made me do a 180 on that, but life as a whole started to really improve as a result.
it's disconcerting, though. i started a community (remember that?) [...]

My 16 yo self, part deux

On third thought, definitely don't want to talk to her.
Sept 10, 1987
Steven threw a wad of paper at me today. It's depressing to think he should want my attention [1]. As it was, I was typing [2] and the small peice [3] of paper landed in front of me. Having noticed that the paper came [...]

You know…(Note to 16-yr-old self, part one)

I started to do the five things to tell your 16yo self meme. But then I realized two things:
I would not be who I am today if I followed my own instructions, and I would be lacking the most significant person in my life, and probably the second and fourth most significant people, as well.
But [...]