It can be done....if they volunteer same.

Welcome to Lives On-Line, a monthly ezine/blog that links to the best entries in the on-line journal world for the last month. This is a little late this month, between a business trip and work on a new webcomic called MINDMISTRESS which will have a new page up tomorrow, Wednesday, the 15th.

I try to give preference to journals I haven't linked to before. After a while, that gets harder and harder to do. This particular entry is pretty much half and half.

Yet, all, I think, worth reading. The virtues are all of the individual writers...any lapses of taste are mine, in choosing to link to them.

Humor:

"Lessons in Bike-Riding" gives a real reason to give up the McDonald's Triple cheeseburgers....that's from the inappropriately titled, in this instance, FOOTNOTES.

I sure hope you weren't in the Austell Wall-Mart on the evening of April 13, or you might be mentioned in "Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers". That's from NO RETURN ACCESS.

"It's either Tupperware or chaos" begins the May 8th entry of THE BLEAT, and then goes on into David Lynch movies.

Drama:

"Story 'Bout a Flying Cat" is about feeling shame for a birth defect you have no control over---in his case, Arnold Chiari Malformation (or ACM for short). That's from JOHN'S BLAHTHINGS.

Read HER LIFE IN A NUTSHELL'S entry for Apr 29th---about the destructive, yet almost seductive beauty of a tornado.

"Different, yet the same" explores what may be the riskiest thing anyone can do---or the most enduring---and certainly the most dramatic. That's from NO RETURN ACCESS.

"Slow Down and Let Me Get Back On..."---coping with the death of a parent, and of the grieving's returning to life. That's from GRACE BY CHOICE.

Slice-of-Life:

"Barenaked Entry"---growing apart but still yearning for each other. That's from BAD PORNO MUSIC.

"My Favorite Pillow" captures a lovely moment of comfort in bed, from Casey of ACTUARIALLY SPEAKING.

Someone who actually tries to make a difference, to buck the system and make life better for people is discussed in "Diogenes Weeps" from THE WONDERING JEW.

Miscellaneous:

THE JOURNAL COMIC in it's April 23rd entry, has a confrontation---that isn't a confrontation.

"Sniffles" chronicles a night on the town that gets a woman sick. Literally. FromADVENTURES OF A 20-SOMETHING GODDESS.

In "Making the Committment" the writer finds, to their surprise, that keeping up with a new exercise/health routine is easy and fulfilling. It seems to bring on some odd dreams, though...that's from BRAINSPINNING.

That's enough lives turned inside-out for your inspection...be here next month for more of the hidden side of how other people feel....for more Lives On-Line.