Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Blogger Dog Puts Bite On Winter
Forget about Groundhog’s Day and the spring equinox. Winter officially is over when Ursa the Devil Dog eats her first ice cube. In other words, she puts the “bite” on winter and, suddenly, it is gone. You doubt me? During the summer, Ursa loves to crunch ice cubes, but she’s not interested during...
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Monday, March 20, 2006
No Negotiation In The Battle Of The Sexes
I’m a firm believer that if we more clearly communicated and listened better, we’d have much less conflict in the world, both interpersonally and on a global scale. When it comes to the “battle of the sexes,” though, I don’t know that such tactics will work. Here’s why I say that: Late one night...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Sorting Through The Dream Drawers
Possibly prompted by my fevered state (I had the flu, I suspect), I enjoyed a most unusual dream recently. I was opening the drawers of a dresser, and, in each one, was a sweater that I had worn sometime in my life. Now, in a conscious state, I probably couldn’t remember most of them. But in the...
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
A Dalliance With The Devil Dog
As Ursa the Devil Dog and I take our morning walk, folks along the way sometimes comment on what a poor, pitiful creature she seems, barely able to drag her tired old body up these hills in the Eastern Ozarks. Ha! The truth is that UDD is a world-class dallier. While I walk to relax, clear my head,...
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Friday, March 17, 2006
The eHarmony Story That eHarmony Won't Tell You
Those eHarmony commercials are very enticing, aren’t they? They certainly enticed me, and I took the plunge. Heed my cautionary tale before you make the same mistake that I did. Here’s how it happened: eHarmony matches American boy and Canadian girl. They correspond. They meet on his turf. They are...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
A Wake-Up Call You Can't Ignore
When in the rain forest, you don't need an alarm clock to ensure an early start to the day. Most of the time, the howler monkeys will awaken you with a roar that sounds like traffic on an interstate highway just over the hill. If they should oversleep, the birds are ready to take over, especially...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
TLC Desperately Needed. Please Click! Please Help!
Here I sit, nose dripping, sinuses clogged, muscles aching, and fever coursing through this normally robust body. Poor me. Poor, poor me. Won’t you please help? I do not handle illness well. In fact, I’m a big baby. When I feel like this, I’m always certain that I’m never going to be well again. I...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Jazwolf--- The Gay Blade
For nearly a year, I commuted 75 miles one way, three times a week, with three women. We were finishing up requirements for graduate degrees. Spending so much time together, we talked about many things besides school. Two of them were married and spoke often of their children. The third was going...
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Left Behind--- And Still Around To Tell About It.
For the second night in a row, Jazwolf County, here in the eastern Ozarks, avoided a direct hit by tornadoes. Weather reports this morning revealed more than 80 twisters in the area from about midnight to 4 a.m. On both Saturday and Sunday nights, tornadoes pounded areas to the north, west, and east...
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Battening Down The Hatches. Tornadoes Are On The Way.
Wicked winds are whipping up from the southwest and black clouds are on the horizon. My area is in a "tornado watch" and TV weather folks say that big storms are just to the west and closing fast. They also say that these likely will be worse than last night, when we had torrential downpours, hail,...
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