Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Cook's Day In

I went to the store, picked up the ingredients and yesterday, with the sun bright and the weather unseasonably cool (it was below 70 degrees, and the breeze blew through the open doors front & back) it was perfect cooking weather. Into the little crockpot with two luscious chicken breasts, unsalted... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Military Channel

During those hours when there's nothing on network or basic cable channels but extended sales pitches and re-runs of 40-year-old sitcoms, I go to the Military Channel for clues about World War II, and the Allies' Task Force 124 and Task Force 126. There was a brief reference on one page from my... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Charles Bukowski's "Women"

I found this one at Books a Million a couple days ago while I was waiting for the other writing buddies to show up. Last night I cracked it open. I knew he'd written the script for the movie "Barfly" and skipped it after seeing the trailer. It looked like a downer, people throwing their lives into a... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Writer's Without Borders Meet

At our writer's group last night three of us brought bits we'd written, and we gave one another feedback. Vickie had a continuation of the novel she'd begun a couple years ago - and she'd been in a hurry to print it off at work, ran into a compatibility problem on the printer and ended up with only... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Under the boardwalk, down by the sea...

On a blanket with my baby, that's where I'll be. Well, it ain't a boardwalk - it's my deck. And what's under it these days is a little brown bunny whose ears look pink when the sunlight shines through them. He's about the size of Itchy, the squirrel child of White Ears, but they don't seem to talk... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Robbing the pot

I went off to work at the phone company in Seattle at the age of eighteen. My little sister was fifteen, going into her junior year at MHS. Cooking and keeping house were necessary skills - girls were expected to catch husbands in those days, and were supposed to learn the household arts at their... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Projects - there's always another one lined up

This is especially true if you're a home owner. Son Joe's been wanting to get at some improvements to his driveway, maybe build a patio deck out behind the house for as long as I can remember. But projects like that take a lot of money. Two years ago, he was in fear of being laid off - with the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Ding dong... No, it's not Avon calling.

It's Vickie, standing out there in the heat and humidity, even her hair soaking wet from sweat, pushing on my doorbell at almost two in the afternoon. Come in, I say. Let me get you some cold water... ( I'm checking my memory: did we have a writer's group get-together I'd forgotten? No.) Oh, thank... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Getting Old is Not For Sissies

And apparently if you're in your eighties, it's not a good idea to feed raccoons out your back door. My law student daughter called yesterday, "just checkin' in" after a day on the job as an intern in the public defender's office. After catching up on family stuff she started talking about her day.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Not Guilty

The decision in Sanford, Florida on Saturday night was a legal matter, the man who shot an unarmed teen-ager after a confrontation is legally not guilty of a crime. Regardless of what we think or what the media says, the man is free to go about his daily life. He may even get his gun back. Whether... Sign in to see full entry.

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