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The Card
(Caution Dick – recycled and refurbished) My mother used to type out her annual Christmas letter so carefully—on a real typewriter, no tech help. After it was perfect, she—I don’t even know how to explain this. She had a flat, … Continue reading
Choirs of Angels
It has been hard for me this year. Hard to feel the loving spirit. You know how sometimes you are surprised by joy? I’ve been more like wrapped in acoustical tile, somehow. At church, I … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Just life, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons
Tagged Christmas, music
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The Ancient Shindig
I have told this story before. And I’m sure, by the time I have run out of words, I will have told the same stories so many times, my children will be able to build a simulacrum out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Family, Just life, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons
Tagged Christmas, friends, ornaments, party
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Atten: Office of Humbug
Forget cognitive dissonance. How about cognitive lock-up. Like they say on the space shows, “I’m trying sir, but the computer’s all locked up.” Or frozen? Do they say frozen? Or jammed. Any of those. That’s where I am: cognitive freeze. What’s wrong with people in administrative offices? If … Continue reading
The problem is
that living life and writing about life cannot occupy the same space at the same time. So here are some little crumbs of things that have given me late and miniscule pause. I find myself wondering if the occasional recession … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Memories and Ruminations
Tagged Christmas, musicians
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And in a related story:
Last night, what little family still live in this house gathered around the cool glow of LCD phosphors – wait, I think LCD TVs don’t have phosphors which is probably the whole point of LCD, right? Anyway, we were up … Continue reading
Another little snit
It is not my fault that Twilight will not die. And yeah, yeah—that can be considered irony—which would take the book into realms of literary complexity heretofore uncharted by it. So the subject came up in my little Facebook group, … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Epiphanies and Meditations, IMENHO (Evidently not humble), mad, Uncategorized
Tagged hope, media, men
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A Little Thanks
Some years ago, I opened my soul to a person I had thought of as a very good friend: “At the very first sense of chill in the evening air, the very first whisper of Autumn, do you find yourself … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Just life, Seasons, Visits
Tagged Dad, rutabaga, Thanksgiving
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The East, part 2: Frog and Toad are Friends
When Gin lived in Kansas City, I was charmed because she was not only half a block from The Purple Dragon, Frazz’ wonderful Russian lady school, but down from that were the many little antique stores (one of … Continue reading
And you thought you had it bad –
Oh, how I long to be as witty and astute as some of you guys – Sue, Rachel, Laura Maery; I’m drowning in clever buds. But I’m a working animal, so I write about non-glorious things. Like pulling teeth. Which … Continue reading