Category Archives: Just life

How We Watch Football

Times change. We change. Football doesn’t change much, but how we watch it surely does. Our house used to be the place for BYU football. All the kids there. Yelling and jumping around. Saying bad words (that would be me; … Continue reading

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Dogs, but no cats –

So okay. Someone explain to me why this happens – I’m doing the treadmill thing (did you know that exercise seems to be part of the prevention of dementia? Now what was I talking about?) watching as The News trots … Continue reading

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Because it’s Midnight

I hate to go to bed. You go to bed and you have to face finding that door into sleep, and that’s a hard journey sometimes these days. So I tend to hang with Chaz, messing around, putting it off … Continue reading

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What I did with my weekend –

August 10, journal: [Note: it occurs to me that my ending question (last post) may have appeared to have been rhetorical.  It was a real question.  Which still pleads for an answer.  Advice.  Comfort.  Shared shame.] This is what I … Continue reading

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Not what I meant to post today:

August 14 I really need to post these things when I first write them. Otherwise, they just keep expanding, or being usurped by new ideas or freaking events. I hate to push patience, suspecting that not so many folks have … Continue reading

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Hay, Marketing and a Little Light Housekeeping

            The housekeeping part will come first: you may recall how every half-year to year I do a “Still want to be on my list?” plea?  I don’t like to think I’m sending to anybody who’d … Continue reading

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Like a Chapter Book –

This is not an illustrated tale.  It should have been, but we were doing instead of recording it all.  So for those of you who have been sliding by, just looking at the pictures, this will be a disappointment.  For … Continue reading

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Not so much a lie as a miscalculation

I guess there is more to life after-all??? A little more, anyway.   This is why sultan should always be with us: 1. He is the right sort of dog. Proof: on the night of the 4th, the air was … Continue reading

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GBWYTWMA: concerning journeys

  Sometimes life gets a little . . . heavy.         And the day finally was upon us. On its eve, much to my distress, I learned that packing with Cam had only been a preliminary packing. … Continue reading

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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

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