This list is not very long. If I was a better person I would write a list of 100 things. That is what you are supposed to do you know, so that you can push through the coinsious mind into the subcoinsious where true creativity gallops about like alphabatised ponys with pockadot hancerchiefs in thier [...]

I am very into my resolutions at the moment. I am getting high off resolutions. They are a wonderful tradition. I have made them before but often do not complete them, or even bother remember to look back on my list at the end of the year. I remember making a list of resolutions at [...]

I believe that metaphors are one of the greatest joys in life. And one of my favorite metaphors is that Life is a Garden. In it we plant flowers and trees and bushes. Weeds spring up and they have to be taken out. You decide if you want to plant certain talents or hobbies or [...]

We are finite creatures. We live our whole lives in this one little cupboard, catching cockroaches and burning bits of wood for light and heat and only daring to sometimes peak out of the crack in the door, and sometimes even wondering what is outside. A palace my darlings! All yours, with gardens and towers [...]

I just stumbled upon this amazing site called Zuza Fun.
It is the home of all those quirky things that you love discovering on the internet. Weird pets and places and inventions and art. Stuff that makes you go “waaaaa? who would actually do/make/invent that?” One of my favorites are bugs outfitted with old clock pieces. [...]

I am entering a new season of my life, I think. A season of News and Firsts and Yes’s.
2006 was a season of Lasts and Endings and Goodbyes and Forevers. It was my last year of school and I felt that every time I did anything it was for the last time…
2007 was my first [...]

Welcome back to my weekly serial. Read previous episodes of Chardonnays life story here. In case you don’t remember, Chardonnay has now blossomed into a young woman who goes by the title of The Mole Queen.
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Of course the title of The Mole Queen did not refer to Chardonnay’s mole-like kingdom of tunnels she had gradually [...]

Today I lay in bed for a few hours reading A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Grieg. It has been so long since I have laid in bed reading chapter after chapter. the enemy? Why my bladder of course. And eventual numbness of the limbs. It feels so good to finish a [...]

Today I woke up at 4 in the morning. (For work…) I enlisted the help of 3 different alarm clocks. When I woke up the sky was a clean slate of gray, like the sun was just opening its cycloptic eye (is this too verbose?). The birds were already chirping and squeaking and frittering. I [...]

Welcome back to my weekly serial. Our Protagonist Chardonnay is now a sullen teenager who is blowing up things in an internationally acclaimed circus. You can read the other Chardonnay Sundays here. If you are not Luke, please leave a comment and tell me if you adore Chardonnay, just so I know someone is reading [...]