Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jun 13th, 2008 7 Comments »
my pen full of ink
it’s my thoughts
that run dr
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
sense of a dream
just out of reach
morning light on my face
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Reviews on Jun 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
I hate the first part of trying to explain Lars and the Real Girl. You have to start with “There was this man who was so lonely and closed off from everyone around him that he goes and orders himself a life-sized doll.” People tend to look at you strangely at this point. But this [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jun 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
Well, it’s about that time again; the time when I don’t want to bother composing an interesting blog post about my life, but have found a song which fits well with my life right now (i.e. is smacking me upside the head about something), and therefore post the lyrics for everyone to mark as read [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jun 11th, 2008 No Comments »
tapping
my fingers
nothing changes
Posted in Gabrielle on Jun 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, it would appear that I am well again. The spots have all faded and I’m getting my strength back. Soon I’ll be full strength again and go back to punching through walls. Right now I’m trying to take it easy. Our current theory as to what in the world happened is that I got [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Jun 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
I found this haiku in my files and no longer remember what inspired it, but I rather like it in an odd sort of way….
empty on the floor
abandoned
a pair of monkey pants
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
As always the participants of the conversation are anonymous. Really, there’s no way you could figure out who said this. And besides that, these are not the droids you’re looking for…
“I’ve never heard that goth pirate elephants make particularly good secretaries.”
Posted in Raquel on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
 So lately it seems like all the helpful things I could do I’m not really good at, and nothing that I’m good at is particularly useful, which gets frustrating after a while.
But then I had some vague memories of being good at writing haiku. This still doesn’t seem terribly useful. However, several people have [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
overwhelming beauty
words fail me
‘it’s pretty’