Stormy, Stormy Days
[Sorry there was no blog last night. We lost power up in the thicket for about six hours and the phone line was so spotty I couldn’t even maintain a dial-up connection.] But oh, it was the [...]
Kurt Vonnegut
Well folks, we lost a great one. Here is an obit a friend sent to me. Sorry I can’t find a source/author for it: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 The proper length for an obituary for Kurt Vonnegut [...]
Gotta Love ‘Em
See, they know they’re absolutely attractive, charming, sexy, and entertaining when they walk in the door. And they know they’re at home because I’m their barista and they’re caffeine [...]
Correction
Ok. I never do this. But… That post about Book Sense: Of course I meant Dorothy Allison wrote Bastard Out of Carolina. Not, obviously, Dorothy Parker. I even had the book sitting right in [...]
Book Sense
I’m about fed up. I’ve whinnied and whined. I’ve philosophized and theorized. I’ve sought advice and given over to the random voices. And still, my reading list for this semester fails to dazzle [...]
From the Observation Deck
The middle-aged woman whimpers like a helpless bird, then gestures rapidly with her fingers, opening her mouth and directing her hand aggressively down into it. I am the barista, she is the [...]
Winter Reminder
All of the sudden, winter is upon is again. In the morning, snow and sunshine engage in a cross fire over the mountaintops, here a cloud and flurries, there a blue patch of sky. Tonight, it’s a [...]
It’s Time to Move On
And so it hits me, with the snowflakes falling over the South Toe Valley, ripping off the Black Mountains through the pitch of night and settling like a veil of lace onto early Spring daffodils. [...]
The Teensy Party
[Wrote this last night but I couldn’t get online b/c of heavy rains and water in the line.] It’s for my friend and so I have to go.I am dead-dog spitting-gull tired but I have to go.It’s [...]
