Shannon Costello

A rainbow is formed by the separation of light waves passing through water. Very concrete and predictable in that sense.  But it is also a symbol of hope.  And it’s beautiful.  I was going to write a dialogue contrasting the abstract and the concrete, and I was going to start with rainbows.  Life seems like [...]

Sometimes I realize how profoundly shocking it is that I am childless- a long-held assumption of mine that may be just wrong.
I’m writing about it now because I don’t want my sense of fulfillment to depend on motherhood.  Getting to that point is a process, of course, and I’m hardly there yet.
The most common conversation [...]

We finally finished the last episode of season 7 this week.
I loved the ending- Captain PIcard finally joining the officers to play poker…but of course it was sad, too, since it was the LAST one….ah well, we are only on season 2 of DS9.

I won!  Well, ok, I didn’t actually finish first, but the awards committee decided that I should receive the first place prize for my “extraordinary efforts in preparation”.  They “attached special importance to my vision for a world in which exercise is important” and said that I had “created a new climate in the Baltimore [...]

It’s sort of hard for me to see Chicago’s failure to snag the 2016 Olympics as an Obama failure.  All four contending cities had governmental higher-ups on hand, including the King of Spain.  And it seems that South America has never hosted the Olympics before?  I think Americans’ perspective may be somewhat skewed.  Go Brazil!

1)  Two fully weeks of school = two full weeks of forgetting to take out the trash.  I’m afraid to look in the trash can to see what might be growing in there.  Maybe we should barricade the door to the garage just in case.
2)  There is, at this very moment, a LIVE giant cricket [...]

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties!
Here is a black spot for all of ye :

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Today thoughts of dying leaves, cold, late sunrises and early sunsets leave me feeling depressed.