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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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Numb 2Ways
I just saw an Impatient Jackass in a big black Ford Expedition leaning on the horn. He was ticked off because an Inconsiderate Schmuck was walking up the road in front of him with his young son, taking his time as though they were on the sidewalk. This was in the parking lot in front of Ralph's...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Controlling Weight and Blood Pressure with Food...
Well, it sounds like a good idea! Eating healthier, eating consciously. If I can lose ten pounds my blood pressure will drop by five or ten points. I'll feel more energetic, and morally superior to my old self. Porridge for breakfast - aka Irish steel-cut oatmeal - will take cholesterol levels down....
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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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