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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Aa soo: Spring
This was a week ago Sunday. The lovely Chaz. Still up for negotiation. Fresh from church. Woman with butterfly sleeves and jonquil. Woman in freezing cold, standing up after several moments of crouching with flower. Legs locked. This is an … Continue reading
In the last bit of March
Today: Snow has long since worn its romance value thin. The horses think so, too. But as I came home this morning from the feeding and grabbed the paper off the snowy driveway—all tucked into its red plastic bag against … Continue reading
The Literary Tango
Yesterday, I should have dealt with the taxes. Well, I already did most of the number checking in January. Now comes the packaging up of the paperwork, the labeling and organizing for the accountant. I’d do these taxes myself but, … Continue reading
An interview with A Motley Vision
If you are so inclined, the interview is located HERE. It is my earnest hope that I managed not to say anything entirely stupid during the course of it. If I did, I’m sure you’ll let me know.
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, The outside world
Tagged interview, Slumming, writing
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Little Britches – more grit
A couple of years ago, Rachel showed up on my doorstep with a bag full of books. “Gotta read,” she said, and thrust them into my hands. It was the beginning of my odd journey with Little Britches. As I … Continue reading
Riding Freedom: a review
It began to be my practice, some decade and a half ago—just about the time we started making enough money to actually buy some of the things we used to spend our “date nights” lingering over as we tolled the … Continue reading
That ain’t no lady –
At book club last month, Jennie said something that completely nailed me to the wall. She’s a grown up with teenaged kids, going to university to finish up her degree. She told us, all day long, she runs around with … Continue reading
When we were small
Yeah. A long time ago now. And all these kids gots kids. Lots of ’em.
Posted in Family, friends, Images, Memories and Ruminations
Tagged kids, thicket, Williams
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Just more stuff
Solemnly pronounced on radio news the other day: “The federal government is facing a national obesity epidemic, a global financial crisis. Now it’s trying to deal with the problem of school lunches.” Aside from blinking at the underlying absurdities in … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations
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I’m having an apostrophe—
Not an epiphany. (Allusion alert: whatcha say, new Uncle Scribe? You got it? Of course you do.) I mean just what I said, and I am going to give a little lesson right here and now on what the little … Continue reading