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

By Pat_B - About Me - E-mail this page - Add to My Favorites - Add to Blog List - See other blogs in Journal

Monday, July 2, 2012

Murphy's Law - or how many cliches can you stuff into a blog

If anything can go wrong, it will. If there's a possibility one of two things can go wrong, the one that goes wrong will be the one that is the most difficult to fix. Verbal contracts are not worth the paper they're printed on. Ever hear the term "looking at the world through rose-colored glasses?"... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Oh, dear, what can the matter be?

Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Oh, dear, what can the matter be, Johnnie's so long at the fair. Mama used to sing this song around the kitchen while she was prepping vegetables or cutting up a chicken to fry. I liked hearing her sing around the house. It was a lull in the storm. It meant her... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

It only got to 105 yesterday...

I got a three pound fillet of Copper River salmon from the Public Fish Market in Seattle yesterday - sent overnight express by my son. Still perfectly chilled between two giant slabs of gel ice. Copper River salmon comes once a year, the first catch after the ice goes off the river enough that... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 29, 2012

Record heat for St. Louis area 108 yesterday

The big heat is due to continue indefinitely. Vegetation here looks like late Aug. browned and baked, dirt is crusted dry, dust rises when you walk across the lawn. City has ordered water conservation, no lawn watering, no car washing, use full loads for washer & dishwasher. No rain in forecast. T... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Friends?

In the late '80s I was a research associate at the University, handling publications and editing. One of our grad students was T, a woman with a disability. She'd lost the use of her left hand as the result of a stroke in her twenties, had difficulty typing up her class papers. So a time or two I... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

William Saroyan -- 1908 - 1981

"My writing will be discovered again and again. It will speak to the begatters." -- William Saroyan You may not have read him, he was an American Armenian, famous for a play: "My Name is Aram" about a little boy's wondrous experiences. He also wrote for many years for the Armenian Review. After his... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Overheard on a midsummer fishing trip

Two fisherman along a trout stream, probably somewhere north of the US-Canada border, overheard a conversation between two mosquitoes as they circled above the riverbank. What ya wanna do, mate? Eat 'em here, or take 'em with us? Better do it here. If we take 'em with us, the big ones will take 'em... Sign in to see full entry.

Anniversaries...

Marry in haste, repent at leisure. I don't know who first said this. But those six words tell the story of hard-won knowledge. I met my first husband a couple weeks before Thanksgiving in 1954, set up by a girlfriend. Shirl was fat all through high school, never had a date. When she applied for a... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

But you have to. There's some keepin' on to do. Some days I wonder what's the point. I wrote a dystopian thing yesterday about this guy named Dirk who had the habit of killing off his wives. A guy who keeps the truth close to his vest, puts on a good guy mask, and gets away with murder. There were... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Last Full Measure of Devotion

Dirk watched as Emma opened the cupboard, sipped black coffee from the mug he always used. Even from ten feet away he could smell the vitamins and herbals she kept on that shelf to the left of the sink. As always, she opened the compartments on the pill dispenser before pulling all the bottles for... Sign in to see full entry.

About this Blog

Sometimes you have to write it down in order to learn what you really think about life, what it means, how to do what's best. Sometimes you need feedback from someone else to put things in perspective.

People

Blogs

Headlines (What is this?)