Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Gorgonish For Sure
“The Gorgons had long snakes in their hair. They looked like women, only more horrible.” (from a student's literary paper in Lederer's "Anguished English") Today, I feel like--could I possibly look more horrible? I know the answer is "yes" to that question, but I really need to go out today and it...
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Monday, July 6, 2015
Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen sings "Everybody knows how it goes..." but more and more often I find myself on the short end of knowing. I think I've put too many miles under my feet, too many cups of coffee under my belt, and I'm too many kisses deep to remember the important things for today. Son #1 got short with...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015
Big Bang Theory
The firecrackers are starting up again this evening--as if they didn't do enough of them last night, all night long until the crack of dawn. Kansas City even had the largest firework shell in the United States (so they say) at our Longview Lake. The shell was 24" in diameter and weighed more that...
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Saturday, July 4, 2015
Temporary Tats
I must bore everyone who reads this post by saying that I don't much like them (tattoos). I have the most darling new picture of my Baisy (Great-granddaughter) except that it looks like she has some horrible disease up and down her cute little arms. I can understand why a three-year-old would think...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015, 23:60:59 UTC
I'll be glad when tonights leap second is over and done. I really hate things like that hanging over me. Who knows what horrible things might happen in that one-second interval just because man is messing around with time. I'm being facetious you know. Actually, tonights leap second will be the 26...
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