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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Counting Coup: The Goddess Decade - Cont'd

Small Revision: inserts after the Roger sequence: At first I was in pieces, emotionally. Grief-filled. It was too late to find my soulmate: I’d turned fifty. Then Lucille in the Bursar’s office told me I was lucky. “The fifties are the goddess decade,” she said. “You’re done with the diapers and... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Counting Coup:The Goddess Decade (Archive, 2003)

I woke up in my big double bed this morning, curled up on my right side, snuggled under the down comforter. I stretched my toes to the foot where the cool felt as sweet as a stream on a hot afternoon. The featherbed remembers, keeps a core of warmth waiting when I slip out for a minute, and welcomes... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Sick in Bed in the Woodbox

That's an expression Mom used sometimes when she was talking to her sisters or other adults and they'd ask her how she was. Sometimes I think life in this old world is totally illusion, a matter of perception. I mean, I remember the time we lived at the Y junction between Kennewick and... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

John's school project.

I decided to take a peek. Turns out I'd seen this project in 1983 when he created it. He did all the typing, pretty good job of it, too. It's titled "The Shedding of the Leaves from the Poet Tree." His illustration on the front cover was a tree that filled the page, a kid raking leaves at the... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Finding a Sub

In light of my recent health issues, and a suspicion that things will get worse before they get better, I began to think I need to recruit a sub from among the writers at The Center. My first thought was Lois. She seems no-nonsense, straight-laced, and much of what she shares with us in focused and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Loving, Beautiful Packrat Teachers...

Sharon M. taught 8th Grade when my son John was a student at Mundane Middle School. He was a creative child, artistic in several ways - he could draw, liked to do fancy lettering and posters, he played cornet in the junior high band, and he wrote poems and stories. He took to schoolwork like a... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Wednesday. Wow!

I'm so bored with myself I could run screaming out into traffic. Except there's no traffic now that St. B's school is out for the summer. No parade of mamas and papas in their SUVs, dropping little Mary and Johnny at 7:30 so they'll be in time for 8: a.m. mass. No hurry-up moms leading their... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Good News

Just got an email from my sis that brother John's condition is much improved, the pain in his hands they suspected was metastasis from his prostate cancer was actually related to the stomach infection, which is getting better. The prostate thing is non-threatening as it is so slow-growing they're... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 24, 2015

The Party's Over...

Ninety percent of the party setup at St. B's has been cleared away. There was no 4:00 mass yesterday, because the festival was in full swing. Weather was perfect, pushing 80 degrees and sunny. Moms and dads with their little ones in tow were up and down my street from sunrise on. First there was the... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

St. B's Festival is On!

Thursday they downloaded the porta-potties. Even before school let out for the summer at 2:30, the flatbed crew was unloading the necessary facilities in a neat row along the exit driveway. Parents queueing up to collect their newly-liberated offspring were obliged to be even more polite and patient... Sign in to see full entry.

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