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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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Miracle on my street! You won't believe it...
We've had a bit of rain in the midwest. So I'm standing at the sink, combing my hair and a drop of water hits my arm. It's early, my glasses are still on the nightstand, but there seem to be water drops on the ceiling, preparing to jump. Oh! No! Not a leak in my roof! I run for my glasses and sure...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Now I'm getting worried!
We haven't heard from Kabu or Wiley in several days. Does anybody know how they're doing?
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Friday, June 20, 2008
You've got to see this! Classic cover on the new "Poets & Writers"
Marilyn Monroe is on the cover of the July-August 2008 issue of Poets & Writers. She's in a park, wearing a demure striped bathing suit sitting on one of those merry-go-rounds reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce. She's apparently reached the last page and is fully engrossed in the book. I love this...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Daily Briefing
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying, 'And yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed.' 'OH NO!' Mr. Bush exclaims. 'That's terrible!' His staff sits stunned at this sudden outward display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
eek! There's a giraffe in my shower...
The grandkids were over yesterday. Art at gma's house. Amy worked on the paper mache project she started, a 3-D version of her MySpace Avatar. It's going well. I went upstairs to talk with her dad about life and how weird it can be, mostly about Amy's Marine Sgt. big brother who's being deployed to...
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