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

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Commercials for depression meds depress me

The sad draggy music comes on. The sonorous, sympathetic voice drones. The images of people drooping in self-pity, the cartoons of a woman unable to climb out of a hole just make me want to run screaming out into traffic. When those little bursts of misery come on, I can't hit the remote button fast... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Nutshell version of "Adam's Mother."

Evelyn buys an obsolete declassified military computer at a swap meet, gets it running, discovers deep space coordinates pointing the way to the lost Mariner Seven, a priceless relic. She takes a surrogate mother contract to finance a search expedition, 30 days out finds old Seven, but has run too... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Question of the day:

Without looking it up, describe the shoes worn by the Energizer Bunny. Sign in to see full entry.

Evelyn and Mike change their identities and escape...

As Marc and Kari made the long hike to Canada, Will Simpkins waited impatiently for his smashed larynx to heal. He hadn’t been able to assert himself that day at Provo General. His own pain meds and discomfort sidetracked his usual ability to control a situation. He let the gurney with the infant’s... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Dangerous Reading...

There are times what you read, and what "they" tell you doesn't exactly jibe with what you see around you. Most of us would deny that we're subjected daily to a barrage of propaganda, a constant sales pitch designed to keep us in good citizen mode. Oh, there may be times we start to wonder if our... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

To avoid talking about 9-11

As a way to learn Word 2010 and find my way around Windows 7, I began a major writing project a few days ago. Well, I should say "editing" and not "writing" since what I'm doing is going through the manuscript of my first novel, scribbling edits on the printed pages. Then I typeset that into a Word... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Shoes -- it's a girly thing...

I don't know how it happened. I never was a shoe fanatic, but once my little girl got in high school, she loved shoe shopping. Athletic shoes, strappy sandals, clogs, flip-flops, what her friends thought was cool, things that matched a purse or set off an outfit. My little girly girl had become a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Remembering

Ten years ago I worked for Seattle Central Community College, an urban campus on Capitol Hill overlooking the city's downtown. Our college, largely because of the Coordinated Studies program run by the Humanities & Social Sciences school -- my department -- had just been named Time Magazine's... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Great Grape Mystery

A couple years ago I planted a concord grape vine next to the arbor by the back deck. It arches over a wide stone step leading to the back lawn. Some half-hearted Clematis had grown there and bloomed with lackluster enthusiasm the previous summer, but they'd more or less decided "why bother." My ex... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Slings and arrows...

This is how my son signs off his emails. Good news or bad, it's his tag line. I don't know if it's a Shakespeare reference. More likely it refers to the bow and arrow -- he is a bowhunter. His father was a bowhunter and taught him that sport instead of baseball and the ordinary competitive sports... Sign in to see full entry.

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