Tag Archives: Christmas

The Card

Posted on December 24, 2008 by K

(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 →

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Choirs of Angels

Posted on December 23, 2008 by K

            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 →

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The Ancient Shindig

Posted on December 22, 2008 by K

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 →

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And know me better, man—

Posted on December 18, 2008 by K

The header above is honest to gosh real holly from a real holly tree, compliments of Gin and Rhode Island. Today’s morning surprise.  More snow.  And this isn’t the end, they say –  Yikes.  The air is full of stuff. … Continue reading →

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Atten: Office of Humbug

Posted on December 17, 2008 by K

   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 →

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The problem is

Posted on December 16, 2008 by K

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 →

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Fairy Lights

Posted on November 30, 2008 by K

Not a lot of words, here. On Saturday and Monday I put up the little outside lights. G does the big ones up on the scary roof, and I make him do that early in the month before the roof … Continue reading →

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