NEW DOMAIN: TURTLEPROGRESS.COM

Hi everyone! I got a sudden but violent desire to move this party to my own domain so that I could do more fun stuff with it, so please change your links and click over to http://www.turtleprogress.com/. All of my old posts and your previous comments have found a lovely new home there :).

I won’t [...]

Banana Yoshimoto’s “Kitchen”: Healing Meals

When her grandmother dies and she is left truly alone in the world in her late teens, the only place Mikage Sakurai can fall asleep is on the floor of their home’s kitchen next to the comforting hum of the refrigerator. Yuichi Tanabe, a young man who had befriended her grandmother, reaches out to her [...]

I Have a POWER ANIMAL

You know in Fight Club, when Ed Norton is a raging insomniac and keeps attending all these support groups for diseases he doesn’t have because the crying and hugging helps him sleep? And how at one of them he has a vision of his Power Animal, which turns out to be a penguin that is [...]

Um, So Like, When Is She Going to Drop the Weight?

I created this site two weeks ago, titled it Liz Drops the Weight, and . . . have yet to lose a single pound. I haven’t even been trying. But the time is nigh!
Last night, after I decided to give the therapy a go (one individual and one group session per week, and my checkbook [...]

Boston

I’m on my way out the door to the airport for a long weekend in Boston! Hope everyone has a great weekend and gets to enjoy a bit of nice fall weather. I’m looking forward to a small dose of New England autumn :).