friendships | friendships
Nov.28.2011
My entries have crossed about three months of travel time in africa, and they are drawing to a close. This entry, the ninth, is my last journal entry in continental africa, before returning to mainland America.
Entry 9:
Well, this is probably gonna be the last post before I set...
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Jun.13.2011
I lost a friend this month
Not to cancer, an accident, or anything so drastic but to a narrow minded way of thinking
The sad thing is I was surprised but not really
Now you and I know that when it comes to maintaining friendships I'm about as good as ragweed on a nose with hay-fever tendencies...I...
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May.16.2011
Summer Wood
From Summer Wood comes this wonderful novel with the best group of characters I've met in quite a while.There is Lisa Fay, a young single woman who gives birth to her son in a public park...
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Apr.25.2011
I don’t believe I’ve ever truly “hated” anyone…
Not the 80+ year old uncle who was supposed to be babysitting me but instead molested me when I was in 3rd grade or the ex boyfriend who tried to date rape me as he showed me his new apartment. Not even my ex fiancé who used me as punching bag one...
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Jan.04.2011
http://anthonyvtoscano.com/2011/01/04/dear-young-companion-dear-old-frie...
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Oct.29.2010
I don't like to bring grown men to tears, not the least of which because it usually gets me verklempt. "It has grieved me greatly," he said with just the barest hint of Southern drawl, "to think I might have hurt you in some way..." "Oh," I protested, "please...
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Sep.21.2010
”What if dying weren’t a bad thing?” Gail Caldwell asks.
Although death and loss are central to Gail Caldwell’s memoir of her friendship with Caroline Knapp, let’s take the long way home is less about that friendship and more about coping with life and loss and the unexpected gifts of living....
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Aug.03.2010
Today, Sandee Guse was buried. Yesterday was the wake. Difficult times for everyone who attended both the wake and the funeral. Many tears and many discussions of Sandee and how she positively impacted most who came into contact with her.
I know that her family is grieving and will miss her more...
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Mar.23.2010
“Some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind is to become a creative power.”~ E.M. Forster
This past weekend, one of my close friends went on a spiritual retreat she attends several times a year, and decided to share the trip with another friend who occasionally travels with...
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Jan.10.2010
I feel very blessed to have lived in the same area most of my life. Yes, there were early years in the south, as in Deep South, years I can't remember. There were the years in college in the central valley, long hot or foggy years, depending on the season. But mostly, I've lived in: San...
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