Category Archives: Writing

Twilight and other purloined morpheme packets –

Posted on August 20, 2008 by K

I don’t like it when a word—especially one I have a special fondness for like, say, “lunch”—is hijacked by one particular group or circumstance, and fenced off so that I can’t use them they way I’ve always used them, the … Continue reading →

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Not what I meant to post today:

Posted on August 14, 2008 by K

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

Posted on July 21, 2008 by K

            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 –

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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