Linnea Ashley on October 17th, 2005

when i was younger i didn’t really have a desire to go out much. in college i would throw pot-lucks and have a bunch of friends bring food (of course) and we’d crowd around my floor (i didn’t have much furniture) and talk about whatever came to mind. and while i knew a slew of […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 15th, 2005

getting to sleep and going to sleep are two different things for me these days. now that i’m done with the 10 and 12 hour workdays and i’m just making plans for my time being tired is more an emotional state then an absence of sleep. don’t get me wrong, i’m sleepy too – it’s […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 15th, 2005

in a week i’ll be gone again. living out of my backpack legitamately not because i’m homeless. off to guatemala to learn spanish. and on the side i’ll be checking out the public health situation in the area. i know i know – hurricanes and mudslides. but i checked with the school and they haven’t […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 11th, 2005

let me start this with a heartfelt thank you to my family. when i changed my flight yesterday so i get to fort worth earlier and disrupted their planning they didn’t bat an eyelash. in fact, i was welcomed home with sushi and the chance to play with both of my nieces. even so, i’m […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 9th, 2005

I guess you could say I rode the fence on this one. A funny thing to say for anyone that knows me because I’m notorious for being – shall we say impassioned – about everything. I’m rarely at a loss of opinion. But when the footage of “looting” in new orleans started making its way […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 8th, 2005

this is where i’m trying to get to…check this out.

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Linnea Ashley on October 8th, 2005

this morning on the way to boutte, the sun bright and yesterday’s clouds scattered and forced to the fringes of the sky, we followed a caravan of trucks hauling cages of would-be-garbage if… “there goes someone’s house.” lee danced with the truth on that one. each truck was an assortment of carpet and foundation debris, […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 7th, 2005

today i smiled at people again. not the smile i paste up because i don’t want them to see me looking sad when they already have so much to deal with…but the real smile. anyone who knows me knows the one i’m referring to…all 187 teeth (big as they are) exposed to the whole world. […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 6th, 2005

my mother and father are amazing people. everything good about me i owe to them…their love…their attention…their prayers for me and who they wanted me to become. i’ll claim what’s wrong as my own faltering but the good i give to them. in that vein my wonderful parents drove 6 hours to new orleans yesterday […]

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Linnea Ashley on October 6th, 2005

Spell bananas b-a-n-a-n-a-s…I never realized what the heck dear gwen was saying in that song. Having heard it all night and day yesterday I’m even less sure what she means. But then how much does meaning mean when you are busy dancing your heart out in the middle of the always foul-smelling but bordering on […]

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