Laurabelle's Blog

Somehow I found my way to LondonMark's blog and there discovered that his friend Margaret was murdered in a park earlier this week. I'm struck by the similarities between this and Emily. Margaret was an artistic, creative young women living in a foreign country; Mark was a friend learning the news after coming home from [...]

I've not ever really had the problem of not thinking before I spoke. I've always tended to think about things a lot. It's just that I would think, and still say the wrong thing. But recently I've managed to think about all the things I could say, and then not say them. You know, like [...]

Things I have learned today: Even when not in doubt, always ask the librarian. S/he knows things that you didn't even think to ask about. Today I went to the music library for a certain book on CDs. When checking it out, I said I didn't think it had what I was really looking for, [...]

My housemate Lori (not to be confused with sister-in-law Lori) has a master's (and a bachelor's, for that matter) in communications. This means that talking to her is very complicated, because she's always thinking about what's actually going on in the conversation, below the words that I'm actually saying. She tries to listen to what [...]