Monday, October 6, 2008
Thanks and bows with flourishes
to all who wished me a Happy Birthday! I spent some time this weekend chatting with my kids, various degrees of afar... Colorado, Maryland, Singapore... My quasi-step-grandsons even got in on the action, and asked when I would come back and visit again... Zoe, too... She is in real school now, and sometimes reads her reading homework to me. My son and I just hung out together a while, occasionally dealing with a few business and school concerns, but mostly he was on his computer game and I was...
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me!
I am 56 today. When I was 6, I thought 50 was the limiit--a good round number, though as someone pointed out yesterday, 100 is rounder still. Maybe whe i turned 50, I still believed that a little. But I've gotten used to the new idea: the 50s are not over the hill, they are the crown of the hill. And I expect to take a good part of my 60s to get over the top. The 50s are the Indian Summer of the metaphoric year of life... The time when the weather is still fine, and the colors have begun to turn...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
When my daughters reached the age when sex was somewhere
between 'possible' and 'probable,' I took each of them to our family doctor and made a proper introduction, telling them both, "If you, Daughter, ever want to talk to someone about contraception, this is the person to go to. You don't need me to bring you, you know how to get here on your own. Doctor, for the record, I don't need to know about it if she does come to you: you both have my blessing to do what you need to do without including me." I told my kids that sex is a better and a beautiful...
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Ow!
Yesterday I woke up with a leg cramp. Hate that--it hurts! Usually I can feel it coming and extend my leg, stretching the calf muscle, relaxing away the cramping. But asleep, one misses the subtleties... So it messed up my dream and woke me up. I got to thinking, if a heart cramps, it would hurt like this, but worse... The worst, being, it will stop altogether, and it's hard to stretch your heart muscle, or to massage it back to functioning yourself. Today I am re-thinking my casual attitude...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Attack of the Fish Boy
I was at Petco today, returning some doggie treats that turned out to be unacceptible to the doggie. After spending some hours cleaning green veils of algae out my collection of betta tanks (that's betta, like better, not beta like baita --be one of the 5 % who get it right...) I had decided to get some algae eaters, little guys who whip around snacking on slime and stuff. Most bettas are willing to share space with fish who are not bettas. My bettas are in larger containers than the little...
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