Saturday, January 9, 2010
Cabin Fever, 21st Century Style
There have been pleasant, inviting days when I was so absorbed in working my characters and their conversations I missed the opportunity to take a walk or pull a few weeds and just enjoy the day outdoors. And windy, miserable days with rain when I had to get out and run an important errand. Since...
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Catching up with the trend.
I guess everyone else has read "The Lovely Bones" a long time ago. I understand they've already made a movie. But sometimes we just can't read as fast as the books come available. I've had this copy a couple months, but didn't have time to read it until I got snowed in. It's fascinating, horrific,...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
It's f-f-freezing in F-Florida...
Talked to my daughter in Tampa last night, always a bright light on a gloomy winter day. In case I never mentioned it, she's amazing! Just 5'3", just barely over 100 pounds, bright smile, charming and fun. Her Wii age is 24, although calender-wise she's 42. She runs, works out, bikes, and for the...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Withdrawal is a bi*ch.
I was in misery. Abandoned by humanity. Cheated by the Internet Gods, the powers that be. Isolated with nothing to do but endless games of Spider Solitaire... I had to resort to house cleaning, sweeping my floors, going after cobwebs. I couldn't get online. No email. No online weather reports. And...
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Not sure I'm going to finish the jealous daddy story...
I don't like this guy. Maybe he hasn't done anything interesting in his entire life until he fell for his daughter-in-law. Maybe he was always creepy. There was this guy I knew who couldn't accept himself as the old guy, (40) no longer the cock of the walk in pursuit of young girls. When his...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Auld Lang Syne
Here's a toast to absent friends, the poets and singers, the dancers and do-ers, the muses who motivated us to say and do our best. How we miss their participation in the life of this place. Here’s to life and love and keeping on, to slogging through the mud. Here’s to bright moons and warm suns and...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Grandkids & friends...
Amy (14) called around noon. I was surprised she was up so early. She wanted me to take her and Evan shopping, or maybe out to eat. Evan is her gay friend; he reminds me of the fashionista nephew on "Ugly Betty." We went for a burger, stopped off at Kohl's so they could spend a few of their...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
College Daze
But, should I come in from the rain? School is cool says the educated fool. They taught me everything I know: the quantum theory, rudimentary philosophy, economic probability. My hair's long now, I'm finally free to be the man I want to be. But Mom says I'm an awful slob and I can't seem to find a...
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Monday, December 28, 2009
College Daze ...
Degree Candidate History is not for me, the lovely freshman said. Accounting is the world's most trying bore. But art is fun when said and done and I just love to dance around the floor. Nursing's for the other guy You can send the math train right on by There's no career-girl plan designed for me....
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
College Daze
Foul Shot The new recruit is six-foot-nine. He can sink a shot from the outer line with neat precision, grace and accuracy. He dominates the full court press and knows exactly how to dress to have the ladies clinging to his knee. His coach makes sure he has a bed, a campus roof above his head; he...
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