There is a tendency for people to call me by my last name. I don’t know why this is. Furthermore, they have a tendency to shorten my name to Shonk, or Shonky. I hate this with a passion. What I don’t hate, though, is when my name gets turned into a verb, which has now [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Walked out of my new house this afternoon with Long December playing. Strange to listen to it while in California, strange still to see palm trees, to walk outside in late October with the sun hot. The song means a lot to me. Like most songs I’ve pinned it to a woman, and in this [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Name your five most character-building memories. Your five happiest. Top five kisses. Your desert island albums and books. I know mine, I think.
Last Thursday a good friend of mine flew in from out of state and stayed with me until Monday evening. Old readers will know her as the Antagonist. The moment we got in [...]
I am mostly satisfied with the way ITLOTLE looks. I am entirely satisfied with how the acronym for my blog resembles Nahuatl, the name for a collection of Mayan languages. (Yolteotl means heart of God, for instance, and ixtli means face).
But! I thought I’d ask what you folks would like to see. Maybe [...]
