http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/At the top of the world, there is a room...hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/413415My life passes by like a stone thrown across the surface of a pond, sending out ripples that merge and then forget their merging. As the months and years replace each other, I am beginning to understand my memory a little better. There was a time, I believe (for that memory, too, has faded into...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/412168I always think of Fall in idyllic terms: the leaves, shed in mauves and yellows, drifting serenly across the still-green grass as I move across the lawn, my eyes trained on the tree tops. But, in reality, it is always associated with such frantic searching and hurrying. There always seems to be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/411560I have lost my words, and it will take me some time to find them again. I wish you all the best until I returnhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/411040I woke up at 2:30 this morning with intentions of cranking out a few dozen pages on my story before I had to start my day, but so far I have added only a few paragraphs - and dialogue even at that. I can't shake the feeling that if I ever submit my manuscript to a publisher, they would give it a...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/410691I'm not one who usually makes snap judgements about people, but the instant I saw J, I knew - without words at first - that he was a bad person. I was struck with the sudden and permanent impression that he was the kind of person who would stand over someone and smile while he tortured them. It...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/410432My hands didn't even shake this time as I signed my college loan for the third time. I knew that tuition had gone up several thousand dollars since last year, a substantial raise, and I was prepared for an equally disturbing growth in my loan. I was right. It was almost twice as much as it was my...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/409796As a kid, I held people to their word. It took me a long time to realize that people do not always say what they mean, that they act differently depending on the situation, and that they sometimes break promises. Looking back, I am not sure why this should have been so hard to come to terms with....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/409519It is shaping up to be a difficult week. I have my first midterm exam tomorrow, and I have been pouring over my notes and creating study guides since Friday. I am fairly confident that I will do well, but the expectations are high, and I am very unpredictable when I need to do something. I...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/408929I started hashing out (again) my idea for this story. I have been trying to write it for over a year now, which, one book on writing assures me, means that when I finally do write it, it will be all the better for it. I still can't help but feel slightly frustrated that it is taking so long....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Artifact/408867You may think twice before posting after you see this... Detective Oscar and his trusty, dumpy sidekick, Helo the Hippo, have taken their underground freelancing detective work to Blogit's own streets! Evildoers and transgressors beware, for they possess the power of keen insight, scruffiness,...