By Valerie on November 5, 2011
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from hanging out with Protospace geeks it’s:
Don’t let ignorance stop you from trying to do something cool. Continue reading »
Posted in news Tagged CSS, geekery, ignorance, learning, risk, web development
By Valerie on July 25, 2011
Wow, less than three weeks left on my 100 day project! The tail end of it kinda snuck up on me, around the 50 mark I felt totally done with the cursed thing, so amazing to come up for air and discover I’m in the home stretch now.
Been looking back to the beginning and what started it all, figure I’ve got enough days done to use as a stick to measure how far I’ve come. It seems a short distance. I’m still stuck, though less uptight about it. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days Tagged CFS, chronic illness, dating, relationships, risk, spirit, stuck, vulnerability, writing
By Valerie on July 16, 2011
Well, that’s just freaky! My ponderings over the last few days have been recollecting a piece I wrote before my website went up over 2 years ago. I think I had originally intended it to be my first post, but by the time I got the website up and running I had more interesting things to write about. So this piece sat… and apparently stewed in the back of my brain. All I remembered was something about Spiderman, and cursing out Renoir, and trying to figure out why you’d ever take on more than you can chew. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, philosophizing Tagged courage, failure, humour, Renoir, risk, self discovery, Spiderman
By Valerie on July 16, 2011
After all my rest and peace yesterday – it took ’til darkness fell before I had the capacity to stay awake for more than an hour, and still I slept for 12 hrs when I did go to bed – woke up this morning snarly. I’m just plain mad, and angry – okay angry is pretty much the same thing as mad, but it’s got more syllables so feels kinda different, you wanna argue with me on that, do ya? do ya? huh? Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days Tagged anger, CFS, change, illness, letting go, risk, vulnerability
By Valerie on July 13, 2011
Stray dog, nosing around all sorts of back alleys and empty lots. Searching. Sniffing out any patch of wilderness she can find. Searching. Looking to play. Looking to run wild. Bigger horizons than these grey buildings allow. Continue reading »
Posted in another 100 days, fiction Tagged acceptance, change, new horizons, play, risk, wolves
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