buh-bye security, buh-bye identity

1. Quit my job.
2. Leapt around in a state of euphoria.
3. Felt anxiousness and loss at what will be gone: my salary, health insurance, Internet, computer, phone, identity as a working person.
4. Waffle between step two and three, again and again.
5. I’m not there yet. I hope it’s good.

the general history project

Today, an email arrived from an old friend, Miss Laura Lee Huttenbach. She was announcing her new endeavor: The General History Project. She is setting out to record the stories of an ‘unsung world hero.’

My most vivid memories of Laura Lee: on the beach in Argentina, clapping her arms like a seal. Eating ice cream, before and after riding four wheelers in the sand (she can eat more ice cream than anyone I know). Another late night at the law library in Virginia. The classic butt shake on the dance floor. She’s quite adept at the butt shake. I am so glad that LL is still shaking her butt. Oh, the places she’ll go….

driving home through the pink

Somewhere between New Mexico and Colorado.

this one’s for Margaret