When did you pretend not to care? Every day, I pretend not to care. I have tried many ways to express this — I am not male, I am not…

Tell me about silence. Silence is what happens when you express your love for yourself. I am happiest when it is silent. That’s when I can breathe, when I can…

It’s Valentine’s Day. If that’s not a concept you’re familiar with, let’s summarize it for you. The name comes from a Christian saint that nobody really cares about in the…

I have received a fairly large amount of odd comments of late on my blog posts. Some of them have been positive, which is always pleasing to see, yet a…

Tell me about your mother’s hands. My mother is a musician. I don’t mean she fools around on the piano and sings in the shower. She’s a serious, professionally-trained musician…

Actually, it may be several of them. I have lately been talking about some of my favorite movies — not so much the ones that I truly love but what…

What have you waited a long time for? Summer. Realistically, it always feels like it’s an age away. Sadly, at the moment, I find myself living in England. This is…

What was outside your bedroom window? Snow was outside the window. We talk about the extremes of weather that have happened in the world lately and it’s definitely true —…

In keeping with my recent trend toward rewatching some of my favorite movies lately, last night’s relaxation was accompanied by Tora! Tora! Tora!, the 1970 production telling the story that…

Yesterday, I rewatched one of my absolute favorite movies. The English title works out to be From Up on Poppy Hill, one of the less popular releases from Japanese animation…

In “Day 14”, I talked about the question of memorization — knowing something by heart — in response to the question of the day. But there’s another way to look…

What do you know by heart? I have always had a nightmare of a time with remembering things. It’s not that my memory doesn’t work. It works just fine in…