Entries from June 2008

June 30, 2008

The Recovery

I had debated writing this blog about my recovery from surgery, even in part–but then I realized that I have nothing else to write about, at the moment; nothing doing. You’ll have heard the expression “hanging fire”? [I did see a terrifically cool moth with my friend Katie last weekend, but I don't think you [...]

June 17, 2008

It’s The Little Things

As all of you know [or as you should know, if you have a heart in that chest of yours, and not a slab of granite], Sunday was Father’s Day. I hope you gave your pa a telephone call, if you live apart from him, and were not able to fête him with grilled meat and gift-wrapped gardening trowels. [...]

June 10, 2008

O summer, my summer, o captain my captain

On Sunday night I had a long, long phone call with my dearest Kimbo; there was much to talk about, and we talked about it until our phones were magma-hot and our batteries were threatening self-combustion. ["Hey!" they said to us, in their tiny lithium ion-based voices. "Get the lead out. We're supposed to operate at room [...]

June 3, 2008

The Bering Strait Bridge! !!!! !!!!!!! !

My parents were in town for a bit this weekend, and thanks to them, I’m newly obsessed with a little something I like to call:
THE BERING STRAIT BRIDGE
Oh my HEAVENLY HOST: the sheer, unbridled gloriousness of the Bering Strait Bridge! The Bering Strait Bridge doesn’t currently exist, for the record, but wishers and dreamers the [...]