Fuck It I'm 50

Artist and filmmaker Lise Swenson's 365 blogging days of being fifty

Month: September, 2009

Blogging and Mortality

Facebook friends-please note that there is more than what you see on FB. Please click on the blog entry title, in blue, it will then load a new page, and then look up, to the top, and you will see, in blue, “See Original Post”. Click that mother and you get the whole deal on [...]

1st 15-minute rule applied, (and failed)

It is 9:41 and I am going to stick to my minimum rule of at least 15 minutes a night of writing, a bottom line agreement with myself.

The Cat Bites The Closest Person

I think this might be a platitude, but I think it is also a childhood experience of mine. If I remember correctly I stepped on our cat Kitzel’s tail when I was perhaps five, and she turned around and bit my sister, who would have been four. It’s not fair, but it’s what we do [...]

The History of Today

I decided a little while ago that Sunday was my favorite day. The most quite, the most wide open, a day to catch up. The only day I might read my horoscope. The day that the local classical music station plays two hours of sacred music from 7-9am and is then followed by two hours [...]

Gotta Post

Went out for dinner with Rene, Laurie and Cynthia and just got in with less than half an hour to post….

9/11

I am so glad that we have not heard that much about the legacy of today. I didn’t realize that until I wrote the date to archive this posting.

Petty Power Brokerage

My co-workers and I have spent many hours over the last two weeks trying to make the computers work in our teaching and editing labs. It has been a nightmare.