Category Archives: Writing

So much depends on small yellow boots

Posted on April 27, 2009 by K

We lost our tomatoes last night.  They froze.  So did our windshield.  But I refused to accept that as truth; I wouldn’t scrape the windshield.  I just pulled out of the driveway and faced the car into the sun and … Continue reading →

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The Inner Cinderella

Posted on April 26, 2009 by K

After I read Marilyn’s comment the other day, I looked up the now famous Boyle “make-over.”  Yeah—everybody’s got a right to change her hair color.  But what distressed me was the new expression on her face in that picture – … Continue reading →

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Saturday

Posted on April 25, 2009 by K

HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading →

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Queen for a day

Posted on April 21, 2009 by K

 I remember, one year, being cheerful audience at our local quilt guild’s big quilt show.  They presented the Quilt Most Likely to Knock Your Eyes Out  to a wonderful piece of work: elegant, complex and demanding in design and stitchery, … Continue reading →

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More slight significance

Posted on April 8, 2009 by K

And there was this time when I had been booked to be the key-note rock star author at a children’s literature conference in Oregon—they flew me there, met me with a shuttle.  Oh, yeah. “This way, Ms. Randle.”  And then … Continue reading →

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The oddness of small fame

Posted on April 6, 2009 by K

           One time when we went to the library, G overheard one librarian at the circulation say to another, “Kristen Randle just entered the building.”  (blink, blink – laugh).  That was back when I’d just been … Continue reading →

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The Prodigal Son

Posted on April 4, 2009 by K

I hate this story.  Parable.  I hate it.  It’s only found in Luke—rather than being repeated three times in the other gospels; maybe that’s why I’m so daring as to say such a thing.  But I do.  Hate it.  And not … Continue reading →

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The Hard Way

Posted on April 3, 2009 by K

            I’m so antsy today.  Why, why, why?  Maybe because I couldn’t fall asleep last night—so I did the treadmill routine at midnight?  Or because the stinking wind is blowing knife chill, roaring in the metal … Continue reading →

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Babysitting –

Posted on April 3, 2009 by K

  Through the looking glass: Gram is Scooter-sitting.            Don’t let these pictures fool you.  I am, at my very best, a reluctant babysitter. There was a time when I was willing to do it for … Continue reading →

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Yeah, yeah –

Posted on April 1, 2009 by K

I didn’t do an April fools’ day post.  I figured, the world is so weird just sort of normally these days, nobody’d notice if I did.  Maybe next year.  When I’m skinnier.

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