Entries by Pronoiapierce

Ferrari

Yesterday while driving on Lake Shore Drive, taking in the cliche but apparent beauty of the city just waking up on a lazy Sunday morning, I spotted a new gunmetal grey Ferrari cruising beside me in the right lane, not trying to race or pass me, just cruising. While in my opinion any Ferrari sighting […]

Graduate school is just not for families anymore

Cole has been gone from sunup to sundown for the better part of two weeks. Today he spent 11 hours at school. Critiques tomorrow. Tomorrow, he’ll be first, so he’ll be out early again, maybe 8 or 9am. He told me he’d be home late, maybe 10pm or 12am. Critiques are over at 6pm… even […]

Q: Why does anybody want this job?

Saturday, the weekend, a time to chill out, relax, or get wild, become irresponsible riff-raff, party on. Saturday, Frantically packing boy #1 for his journey home, at the same time, helping him write a 5-page paper he had 2 weeks to do and just started -at the same time breast feeding Sweet Grand Finaley nonstop […]

Q: What is the most damaging part about being a self divided?

Are you seriously working on being the Nietzschean Superman? Do you really need that much control to ensure you are viewed as brilliant and valuable? Is this the leftover residue from your teenage self when it is customary for the American female to annihilate her heart in an effort to be in complete control of […]

Q: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?

Tonight, almost all the best players were there, a casual gathering to watch a TV show turned needed connections between live human beings… A playwright, a designer, a scientist, an artist, a homemaker, and a healer, and a child all together.

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