Category Archives: Epiphanies and Meditations

The Literary Tango

Posted on March 26, 2009 by K

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 →

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An interview with A Motley Vision

Posted on March 23, 2009 by K

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.

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Little Britches – more grit

Posted on March 22, 2009 by K

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 →

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Riding Freedom: a review

Posted on March 21, 2009 by K

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 →

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That ain’t no lady –

Posted on March 20, 2009 by K

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 →

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Just more stuff

Posted on March 19, 2009 by K

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 →

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I’m having an apostrophe—

Posted on March 19, 2009 by K

 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 →

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Old Letters 2

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

It’s a small pile of yellow, fragile letters.  One of them, from one of Nana’s suitors (written on Feb 5th, 1924) is deeply earnest: “Such a awful name but you’re a thief?! You stole my heart, and I feel miserable … Continue reading →

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Old letters 1

Posted on March 9, 2009 by K

I am a genealogist.  Well, a sort of lapsed one.  Like a person who isn’t shaking at the moment is a lapsed Malaria sufferer.  I suppose that someday I’m going to have to actually sit down and write about doing … Continue reading →

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Family

Posted on March 4, 2009 by K

When I was a kid, I had two sets of cousins—one set on my dad’s side, one on my mom’s. Except for one almost two year stint in Kansas City, we never lived anywhere close to our cousins. We were … Continue reading →

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