Friday, July 4, 2008
Say again?
This farmer goes into a law office and says he wants to get one of those divorces. So the lawyer asks if he has any grounds. "Yes, I got a couple hundred acres." "No, what I meant was, do you have a case? "Don't have a Case, I have a John Deere," the farmer says. "Before we can proceed, I need to...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Double-edged Sword
The 4th of July is a mixed metaphor day for me. Symbolically it's supposed to be a big patriotic celebration, the first big summer party, hot dogs, chilled watermelon, fireworks. And parades, of course, lots of red, white and blue bunting, kids running on a summer evening with sparklers, nostalgic...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
It's July already. Only a few months until NaNoWriMo.
I've gotta get busy plotting the next novel. November is National Novel Writing Month -- there's a website if you want to get involved in that. Chris Baty just sent me an email about a fund raiser so their servers can handle the volume in November. I'm sending him some money, because this...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Ambition
I want to taste her sweet honeyed wine on my tongue no longer suckling for mother's milk or interested in childish things, I want the nipple of the uncaring bitch goddess, success. When her satisfying wine is mine, when I can waste it and want not, it will taste like starlight. I need the wet...
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Monday, June 30, 2008
A Walk in the Woods
The woods seem silent when first walked in: the only sounds are feet munching twigs on the fir needle carpet, breath sucking in, blowing out. Sensitivities double, ears see the gentle surf of the breeze washing upper tips of tall Douglas firs. Eyes hear sunlight's slender bright notes, piccolo dots...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
George
My classmate George is twenty-four, I’m forty-five, and he has a serious crush on me. We met in this Monday night creative writing class and got to talking during class breaks. He’s perfect: good looking, literate, adventurous, funny. He gets my jokes. I think he’s amazing, all he’s accomplished at...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Slapstick -- another moldy oldie I finally got to read
It's becoming a one-note song: I love Kurt Vonnegut. A "new" novel of his came to the shelves at the library's resale shop and I grabbed it. Best use of a quarter ever! I finished it a few days ago, amazed as always. Unless you're older than dirt or addicted to old movies you may never have heard of...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Patterns
Yesterday my sis Marje and her husband of 65 years came by for lunch and a nice long catch-up visit. They came from Oregon to Illinois on their annual pilgrimage to J.R.'s home town. I expected my son to come over during his own lunch break, and my ex was to bring our granddaughter Amy. Children, if...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
A Stitch in Time
Time's an invisible tapestry, a breathing curtain at once veiling, revealing; a fiber optic between the familiar and the unsuspected, revealer of things unseen concealer of things seen long ago in the mind’s eye. History embroiders 1814 and 1860 in French knots and blindstitches. Their anarchy and...
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Haven Street -
Warning! -- graphic content. If you knew what was really going on inside people’s heads, you might never want to leave your house. Folks have dark places in their minds, places they may try to avoid, but seem to grab them the second they relax. Like this Joe sitting on his front porch swing in the...
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