Category Archives: Memories and Ruminations

Like a Chapter Book –

Posted on July 12, 2008 by K

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

Posted on July 6, 2008 by K

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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Vanishing act

Posted on July 2, 2008 by K

 [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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Sometimes it’s wild, and sometimes it’s holy –

Posted on June 26, 2008 by K

            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 →

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At heaven’s gate

Posted on June 4, 2008 by K

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 →

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And they say you can never go home—

Posted on June 4, 2008 by K

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 →

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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Posted on May 29, 2008 by K

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 →

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Interlude

Posted on May 25, 2008 by K

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 →

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Stage Door Tales

Posted on March 30, 2008 by K

March 27, 2008             Last week, the great Ed Catmull came to BYU to open the new BYU Center for Animation, a collaborative effort of the Engineering and Computing, Math and Something and Fine Arts colleges.  Mr. Catmull is the … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Moving on –

Posted on March 14, 2008 by K

            I don’t know how many people will understand this.  I have been mocked before for waxing sentimental about my children. I wasn’t really that interested in having any in the first place, you know.  Oh, … Continue reading →

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