Monthly Archives: December 2008

Okay, now – so it goes in which column?

Posted on December 30, 2008 by K

         It is a good thing to remember to eat your fruits and vegetables.  If you don’t, you’ll be forced to fill in the deficit with chocolate.  In this cheerful season of diversity and culinary debauchery, you can … Continue reading →

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The Morning After —

Posted on December 27, 2008 by K

Okay. So on Christmas morning I learned something: going back to bed and pulling the covers over your head? Not a good plan. Oh, yes, it sounds good. Here—everything in your life has changed, nothing is working right or feeling … Continue reading →

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The Card

Posted on December 24, 2008 by K

(Caution Dick – recycled and refurbished) My mother used to type out her annual Christmas letter so carefully—on a real typewriter, no tech help. After it was perfect, she—I don’t even know how to explain this. She had a flat, … Continue reading →

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Choirs of Angels

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

            It has been hard for me this year. Hard to feel the loving spirit. You know how sometimes you are surprised by joy? I’ve been more like wrapped in acoustical tile, somehow. At church, I … Continue reading →

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Good fellows

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

December 22, 2008             I LOVE my neighborhood.  Love it, love it, love it!!!             I got myself stuck in a snowbank tonight.  It’s been snowing all day.  Even so, we each have sallied out to pick up a final … Continue reading →

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The Ancient Shindig

Posted on December 22, 2008 by K

I have told this story before.  And I’m sure, by the time I have run out of words, I will have told the same stories so many times, my children will be able to build a simulacrum out of the … Continue reading →

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All wrapped up in shiny paper

Posted on December 19, 2008 by K

Getting ready for the Christmas party.  Like I haven’t been doing that since the week before Thanksgiving.  I have to give myself time, because this is the one good setting-in-order the house will get for a year.  I figure, if … Continue reading →

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And know me better, man—

Posted on December 18, 2008 by K

The header above is honest to gosh real holly from a real holly tree, compliments of Gin and Rhode Island. Today’s morning surprise.  More snow.  And this isn’t the end, they say –  Yikes.  The air is full of stuff. … Continue reading →

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Atten: Office of Humbug

Posted on December 17, 2008 by K

   Forget cognitive dissonance.  How about cognitive lock-up.  Like they say on the space shows, “I’m trying sir, but the computer’s all locked up.”  Or frozen?  Do they say frozen?  Or jammed.  Any of those.  That’s where I am: cognitive freeze.  What’s wrong with people in administrative offices?  If … Continue reading →

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The problem is

Posted on December 16, 2008 by K

that living life and writing about life cannot occupy the same space at the same time. So here are some little crumbs of things that have given me late and miniscule pause. I find myself wondering if the occasional recession … Continue reading →

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