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Vanishing act
[And now, a political message from our sponsor] I need Jimmy Stewart. I need him bad. You remember him in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Just a regular guy, a Boy Scout leader, who finds government thrust upon him … Continue reading
Sometimes it’s wild, and sometimes it’s holy –
A note to everyone who might have mailed me and gotten no answer: a response will come. It’s not that I am willingly neglectful. It’s that I’m months behind. So I have a bunch of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Just life, Memories and Ruminations
Tagged basketball, family, Frazz, neighborhood, Scooter
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My birthday and other marvels of the modern age –
I actually almost wrote: “and other marbles of the modern age.”And if I had, I’d have left it, in the spirit of the way things have been rolling along.This is the third installment of the Month of Weirdness, or whatever … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Just life
Tagged bikes, birthday, Chaz, family, fire stations, Frazz, horse surgery, May, Scooter, Sultan
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Of babies and cakes and dang tough breaks –
The Saturday before I left for Kansas City, our Gin’s Kris delivered to us The Granddog for safe keeping. Kris had driven him all the way from Missouri just to boot him into our yard, then turned around and headed … Continue reading
Dang the Torpedos
I am hoping that the month of weirdness is finally over. Not that it happened in just a month. And not that it was ALL weird. I want to share the pictures of these events, and I intend to do … Continue reading
At heaven’s gate
I am alone in my house. Gin and the fam are up in Salt Lake with in-laws. M is in the lab up at school. Chaz is house/dog sitting. G’s in his studio and all’s right with the world. It … Continue reading
And they say you can never go home—
Second installment of the weird month series: June 2, 2008 I don’t really know how to explain Kansas City. It has a mystic sort of significance understood, I have thought, by nobody in my family, except maybe by my … Continue reading
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Note: this and the coming entries are the follow up of the entry just before this one: Outline of the Weird Month. Which is not actually its title. It’s the one just under this one, before it. Or after it. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Just life, Memories and Ruminations, Uncategorized
Tagged Disneyland, family
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Canterbury Tales – without the Canterbury
May 25, 2008 And now to start the long tale. Tales are bound to be long when you keep living the chapters so quickly, you never get a chance to record them. And I am getting weary, trying to keep … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Just life
Tagged Chaz, foreclosure, George, Horses, hospital, hysteria, new babies, photobooks, Sultan, The g-kids, vet
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Interlude
Written May 1, 2008 Someone has been driving my car—it’s the radio that tells me so. The stations that aren’t mine. But this is funny, because last night, as I drove to the horses after … Continue reading