I had a positive week this week. Yesterday I had an interview at Build A Bear. I'm not sure how it went as she has several other people to interview, but even if I don't get the job I am proud of myself. Why be proud if I didn't get the job? Yesterday was my first time in months that I was positive during an interview. When I was doing phone interviews with Michigan jobs (the few PA employers I talked to the last time I interviewed for temp positions here never asked these questions), I could never...

Everyone has a bicycle - in fact, learning to ride a bike is an important rite of passage for the kindergarten set around the world. But if you go for a drive in any average town in the US, how many bicycles do you see out there? Or even pedestrians for that matter? Americans are stuck in their cars, and it seems like we can't get out of them. And it's killing us. Our reliance on gas-powered vehicles is poisoning the air we breathe, isolating us from our community, and creating a sedentary lifestyle...

Humans are always in a state of transition and writers can be lights along the darkened path. In 1860 James Russell Lowell, from north of the Mason and Dixie line wrote that," the south is asking us to agree that slavery is a necessary evil; that it is good for both master and slave." They tell us that it was divinely instituted in the Old Testament and sanctioned in the New.
The tension is of course that a literal reading of the Bible would have sanctioned slavery but more enlightened...

Our Love

I thought of you
In the evening's most desolate hour
I remember your eyes and their brilliant glare
Your voice I remember as sweet as the dove's song
And your lips where as red as the rose of Sharon

Do not depart, oh Sweet Maiden
There is relief for souls that are sorrow laden
For my desire for you is too dear
Let us reminisce in our love
And we shall not despair!

How I dream to hold...

Today I tried a new form of poetry for a contest on Writing.com. I wrote a pantoum, which is:
The pantoum originated in Malaysia in the fifteenth-century as a short folk poem, typically made up of two rhyming couplets that were recited or sung. However, as the pantoum spread, and Western writers altered and adapted the form, the importance of rhyming and brevity diminished. The modern pantoum is a poem of any length, composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each...