Trying to Follow an Abstract Random. Learning to Fly on the Way Down. The wind whispering outside my window is telling stories of far away places, urging me to follow it for awhile, just to see where we end up. The songs playing are urging me that there is love in the world that is waiting to scoop me up into its incomparably strong arms and swirl me around in a whirlwind of overwhelming joy. Could I somehow teach people to weave and make money doing it? .

Upgrade to paid account! My first Cruise ship job aboard the Carnival Elation. Did you miss me? November 9th, 2010.

Saturday, January 28, 2012. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Clearly I have majorly failed in keeping up with this blog. Friday, May 6, 2011.

Friday, October 1, 2010. When too much is enough. Nothing boils my blood faster than being across the meeting table from a woman who sits there with a perpetual frown. The lines are etched in her face. She has perfected the scowl. She flicks papers in an important way and clutches the pen she is holding, as though about to take note of something that irritates her. Her eyes are narrow, suspicious. I hope I never become her.

The Continuing Adventures of the Great SuperSheryl. I would carry those too injured to walk on their own from the scene to the ambulance, or from the ambulance to the hospital, or wherever they needed to be transported them to. My team of stretcher bearers was the firs.