Monday, July 21, 2008
Fighting fear
They'll keep you nervous if your TV is tuned to the news. That old news precept "if it bleeds, it leads" has a tendency to keep us on edge. One home invasion, one gunfight on your city's dark streets, one overturned truck on the freeway with a toxic spill, and you begin to get the idea that danger...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Crying at the Movies...
There are many reasons to cry: joy, sorrow, rage, in appreciation of beauty, at the birth of a child, at the death of a loved one. Forgiveness is a big tear-jerker. I was up early, watching Pay It Forward. I saw it when it first came out in 2000 and was impressed by the acting, the writing, the...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
"In The Company of Liars" - review
If you go to Amazon dot com you'll find David Ellis's "In the Company of Liars" and a bunch of four and five-star reviews. It's compelling reading, and part of its allure is that the story's told in reverse. If you're one of those people who likes to read the ending first, you won't know where to...
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Friday, July 18, 2008
She's Ba-ack!
At 6:14 a.m. on Sunday last, my computer went blooey! I got it back as of half an hour ago. All it needed was a new hard drive... and I had em add some memory while it was in the shop. My Guru/Geek told me the old hard drive could last another week or another year, but it was going to completely...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
You can't sleep with all that going on! Aargh!
A couple weeks ago I wrote about a minor leak that was caulked by a roofer, who didn't even charge me for a service call. Well it turns out the leak was apparently coming from some place he didn't caulk. Any technical guy can tell you the worst kind of electronic misery is an intermittent problem....
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Future Farmer-ettes of America...
Okay, just so you know, it's not the dream of a city chick (old hen) who's got some romantic idea about the serenity of country living. I know what kind of time and attention it takes to clean the chicken house, gather and candle the eggs. I know about keeping the wire stapled tight to the posts so...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wierd stuff...
I wrote something a while ago, a comment / blog on a current flap on the TV News. For some reason my computer froze when I tried to "save & post". So I quickly copied the text so I could post it in my Word program. My cursor wouldn't point or move. I was in limbo. Eventually I had to sign out. Then...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Quote from a Hugo House bookmark --
In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write. --Richard Hugo The Triggering Town Richard Hugo House a community center for readers, writers and audiences. 1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle, WA www.hugohouse.org
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Games
“I win!” she says, her crooked smile spreading wide. We sit in our back corner booth at Mickey D’s, her mottled 90 year old forearms bare on this hot July morning. June is talking and I am taking inventory of her new bruises and exposed skin tears, trying not to be too obvious about it. “She wrote...
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Whales
Borders didn't have a single book on whales. Or maybe they do and I just couldn't find them. The web's info was unsatisfactory. I don't want photos. I want history and biology, studies of their habits, their communications. I had this dream after I went to sleep wondering what to write about in...
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