tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post7743670630847993995..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: A (Not Unpleasant) Puck to the BrowChris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-49214406297581425952012-04-12T14:24:47.600-04:002012-04-12T14:24:47.600-04:00Another kindred soul! I feel much better with ever...Another kindred soul! I feel much better with every comment... It is an amazing journey, Jeff. It's corny, but true. Each life is an odyssey and a thing of interest(until it gets put on a "reality" show).Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-42619705337811264092012-04-12T02:03:15.841-04:002012-04-12T02:03:15.841-04:00I feel this way often, Chris. I never imagined I&#...I feel this way often, Chris. I never imagined I'd travel more than a couple hours from the neighborhood where I was raised, or that I'd write anything people would want to read. Instead, I've had a tiny but satisfying dash of writing success, I've gotten to see bizarre wonders overseas (Serbian monasteries, the Korean DMZ), and my family's totally unforeseeable moves (first to Louisiana, then to Georgia) regularly take me to the Deep South, a region I've come to appreciate and enjoy. So when I'm sitting in Savannah traffic listening to country music with my nephew while I scan for grotesques on old buildings, I just have to laugh. It's a good life, but it's stranger and richer and luckier than the 16-year-old me in Piscataway, N.J., ever could have imagined. Yet I have no idea how I got here...Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-26243815597644371832012-04-11T23:59:07.397-04:002012-04-11T23:59:07.397-04:00Crazy/cool pretty much sums it up, Elise. Glad you...Crazy/cool pretty much sums it up, Elise. Glad you coudl relate and I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this feeling...Chris Matarazzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-13862254937886055392012-04-11T20:46:51.835-04:002012-04-11T20:46:51.835-04:00LOVE THIS POST! I totally had this moment when my ...LOVE THIS POST! I totally had this moment when my best friend/cousin got married. I lived with her for about 10 months before the big day and watched her plan the whole shebang, planned the bachelorette party stuff, etc. Right before we left her Mom's house for the ceremony, we were finishing up getting ready and the photographer was taking pix of her pinning my special little maid of honor flower to my dress. It was then that we this indescribable moment of utter "Holy Shit-ness." We just stared at each other for a good minute with tears in our eyes and my whole life until that point flashed before my eyes - Pretending with Barbies in her bedroom, spending summers with my Mom-mom, the few and far between arguments, living together in college... then I simply asked her: "When and how did we get here?" She just said, "I have absolutely no idea." It was a pretty crazy cool feeling. :)Elisenoreply@blogger.com