My body, this
body, that has
nothing to do
with who
I am.
-Sandra Cisneros, from Well, If You Insist
I don’t know when I started needing to use past tense whenever I talked about your finest moments, but I do know I use past tense now.
You were always strong, always athletic, always moving. You were adventurous and brave, definitely too [...]

“I’ve always liked the time before dawn because there’s no one around to remind me who I’m supposed to be, so it’s easier to remember who I am.” -from a Brian Andreas print my babycarrot sister gifted me last year.
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I’m thinking tonight.
I’m wondering: why do we settle? For less of everything that was once promised. [...]

There is something I’ve been mulling over for what feels like a lifetime, a thread of thought I’ve spun round and round the spools in my head almost daily in recent months in an attempt to create something of logical consequence I can wear whenever my mind comes swiftly twirling back to the original question: [...]

Many of you have no doubt seen various versions of the “100 Things To Do Before You Die” posts roaming about on The Internets in the past week or so, one of which activity-laden list was written by one Mrs. Maggie Mason, and subsequently picked up by other awesome blog-owners like this one and this [...]

The following post and subsequent interview between the lovely Mrs. Carolyn Bahm and myself is part of an ongoing project living on Neil’s site known as “The Great Interview Experiment.”
I was overwhelmed for six days and seven nights after reading the post and subsequent comments surrounding the aforementioned experiment, and finally, after much pacing and [...]

I want to:
do something relevant.
do something challenging.
volunteer more often.
carve out writing time for myself daily.
I want to think:
that I am capable enough to accomplish any task, no matter how challenging.
seriously about what I want to do career-wise, and what it’s going to take to get there.
about everything I say before I say it.
I want to [...]

Yesterday I asked for, and thus received, wonderful feedback on the previous color schemes (myriad shades of pink and purple for those just joining, or for those of you like that one guy, in that one movie, who merely dabbles in short-term memory) and the current design and lay out of kerrianne.org. (Thank! you, so [...]

Someone once said, “There is thin line between love and hate peace and war obscurity and greatness a really ugly site design and a lovely one.”
I am herein wondering: Which is mine? And I promise you I am not posting this because I’m needing a head pat or an ego boost. (Although, who am I [...]

Many a moon ago the floral-laden Mrs. Daisy tagged me for a “five things you don’t know about me” meme. More recently, but still quite a few moons past (I am nothing if not prompt), the wonderfully bohemian Jeanine tagged me for a Stuart Smalley sort of game, wherein you freely admit to liking [...]

For years I forgot about me. Or, more specifically, about the me I was my first three years of college. Forgot about the spunky English nerd, the athlete, the overly naive freshman with picky eating habits. Forgot about the hard-wrought confidence I didn’t leave Oregon over four years ago without first burying with doubt, fear [...]