Stayed over at Rachel’s again last night. Drew let me in since I was late. Rachel gets up at like 3:30 or some ungodly hour so she was already asleep. Drew looks so much like Nicholas, it’s uncanny. This time I slept in the loft. It was neat up there. Then I worked all day […]

Worked at St. Mark all day and still didn’t get everything done. Have to be out by Thurs. Won’t be here tomorrow since I have to work. I feel so badly that all I have left for this place is disdain. Chris and I cried a lot again.

Yesterday Alice and KK spent time at the Valley and went to church in Lancaster. I got off work and went back to 4th St. The transformation of the bed and bathrooms was phenomenal. What a great thing a little paint is. They hauled old doors from the barn at Kelley Ridge to 4th St., […]

I got into Rachel’s late last night to spend the night. I slept in Drew’s room since he was staying with his dad. Rachel and Frank live close to Hamburg Place where I work and since I had to work late on Sat. and early on Sun., it was convenient to stay there. She was […]

Alice is here. YAY! She inspires us to do work! We got started on the entry way on 4th Street–tore down a wall and revealed a staircase. How invigorating it is to sledge hammer holes and crow-bar down chunks of drywall. It’s why some people like to watch “This Old House.” Alice and KK had […]

I met Alcie, Kyle, and KK after I got off work in the children’s department at Barnes and Noble. It was eight o’clock and I had a gift certificate for Johnny Carino’s so we ate there. It was good! Then back to Deb’s to take care of her dogs and sleep well before attacking 4th […]

My friend Annie hates it when I say we’ve been fired. She says we have been “lifted up” out of evil to be placed where we can do good. Sharon says we have been removed from a “cesspool,” and that we’ll feel clean again once we’re not here (she left last year). Hmmm. . .

Joseph Brodsky was arrested for “social parasitism” and sentenced to five years’ hard labor in Siberia. In 1972 he left Russia for America, where he translated English poetry, but it took several years before he began writing poems primarily in English. He said he wrote in English as a form protest against the Soviet Union, […]

Every year we go to the park for half a day and play games. The 8th grade mans a station for each game and the groups circulate. Today a kid in the 7th grade brough paint balls and was secretly passing them out–the boys’ bathroom got especially hard hit. We haven’t had this kind of […]

2 hours of 24! Who pimped this to me?!?!