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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Movies Day With Charlie!

When he is home from school for a couple of weeks, Charlie and I have started a new tradition: going to the movies we've been wanting to see. All of them. On the same day. Yesterday we started with KungFu Panda for breakfast. Cute and funny, not a disappointment at all. For lunch, we messed with the Zohan-- this one will not ever be called 'too PC,' I think... Possibly not a good first-date movie. For dinner, the new Narnia movie, Prince Caspian which was colorful and big and exotic with some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Check it out! I just published an article!

www.associatedcontent.com/article/802763/hit_the_highway_grandma.html It's for a contest on Associated Content--had one day to write and submit on the topic of anything of personal interest or expertise, with the theme of how this topic will be relevant a year from now. I wrote about a trend I've seen on the road, of mature single women choosing a highway-centered lifestyle. I'd copy it here, but not sure the contest allows that. Anyway, it's another pennies per view thing, so please do take a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 2, 2008

post extraction poetry

I've been reading Teddy's and Troosha's and a haiku that comes from Naut... Let's see... there have been some bits roaming about my brain for a while, maybe they are ready to go walkies... Running through the hills The moon rises sev'ral times In a single night. Air is full of green... Pink petals falling, drifting... Gentle springtime storm. A keytouch away Other worlds and other lives Yet certainly friends. Sign in to see full entry.

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Well, that was almost fun...

almost sorry that was my last wisdom tooth... They piped in sodium pentathol--knew that was the plan, so I told my husband to prepare a list of questions if he wanted to... But he didn't bother: It isn't like I have ever held much back... Troosha, your comment in the previous post is on the money... don't know about squirrel cheeks behind me, though--very odd picture, that...! Sign in to see full entry.

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Speaking of loosely...

I have to go get my last wisdom tooth out now. Right now. I have put this off for years, and the time has come. Off I go...! Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Now I have REALLY gone and done it...

Meet Black Jack Davy! Sign in to see full entry.

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Indiana Jones and the Plausibility Factor--spoilerish

After seeing the movie last night, I can understand the mixed reviews it's been getting. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" had me from the first seconds. Part of that is personal--my own predispositions to appreciating archeology, and Harrison Ford. Every scene in that, with one or two exceptions, was a bag 'o fun! The timing was great, and everything had the charm of the unexpected, and the enthusiastic, daring quality of a first. As for this 4th film, the surprises are checked by the 'homages' which... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 26, 2008

The Crow

How do I know me? Can I count the ways? No, really, Can I? Ups and downs and ins and outs... so many of me there seem to be I can hardly sort them all keep them straight give time attention energy in fair divide... Who speaks? Which one of me today is most distraught determined driven by a feeling, by a cause...? Who of myselves chooses what look to wear today, what colors style fabrics and designs? Am we bold today? Or only in the morning-- shy by afternoon and angry with the setting sun?... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Withdrawal from the Universe...

Not all that dire: just now I have returned to the great 5-blog format, it is time to shuffle out all the views of my most personal universe from my first and longest blog How the Universe Looks From Here which was really meant to be more a philosophical than a personal perspective. Though with me, it has always been difficult to sort the one from the other. Not that I am probably going to actually move anything already there... But it will have a home here, hereafter, as opposed to 'in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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