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My Son the Thinker 24 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
Email from Jed: "Hey Mom! I've been thinking about your TV. There's one more thing we can try to fix the remote control. . . . Remember when your printer was broke, and fixed it by unplugging it for a...
Aesthetically Embarrassing Story 18 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Once when I was very young, I fell in love at my doctor. Oh, he was ruggedly handsome, sort of like one of those dark western actors. He was married, of course, so I stifled the emotion all possible. ...
Week In Review 16 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
Jed came over Sunday, and we spent the next three days "supervising" the work in the kitchen: new faucets, cooktop and ovens. The dishwasher still sits in its crate, to be installed today, as some rep...
Cesar 11 Aug 2013 | 05:11 pm
I read online that three years ago, Cesar Millan's life hit a bunch of bad snags. His favorite pit bull Daddy died, his wife asked him for a divorce, and his two sons blamed him for breakup of the mar...
Old Notes 9 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
My dad was the only person who liked to hear me play the piano. He didn't care much for the Moonlight Sonata, Clair de Lune or the Chopin preludes, but he liked the hymns I would play by ear. Many tim...
An Old Poem 4 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Winter At the Inn My merry muse departs, with all her train of sweet beguilers. Fare you well, O joys and gentle smiles, brave banisher of pain stout laughter, all you valiant natural foes of this ol...
Hero 2 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Gretchen is a pretty little dog of the Jack Russell persuasion. She lives with Ramey and India up on the hill, but she visits here almost every day, and sometimes she spends the night. This morning sh...
Birthday Bash 29 Jul 2013 | 10:52 pm
Had a good time yesterday at Ramey's birthday gathering. Today I've had a busy morning, packing and mailing a book and--and--well, I did something else. Two things in one day is a pretty good record. ...
Sonnet 55 28 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful ...
Oxford & Byron, by Stephanie Hopkins Hughes 27 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
This book points out the incredible similarities in the lives of Lord Byron and of Shakespeare (Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford). And the final, fateful difference that determined posterity's asse...
