Heartstringy

This morning, it was cool enough outdoors to wear my long black coat, the coat my dear father called “smart” last winter; the coat that makes me feel like a real lady. I’m wearing red high heels, too. I feel very much as though I’m a character in a French mystery novel, perhaps one called:
The Baguette and the Professor
or
Murder at Proodforth Chalet
Or, [...]

I’m Waiting, I’m Waiting

I just had the opportunity to sit–for moderate chunks of time–in two very different waiting rooms, two days in a row. On Friday afternoon, the waiting room was at my doctor’s office–oh, doctor’s office waiting rooms,  you wondrous petri dishes o’ humanity! The sick, the well, the anxiety-ridden, the serene, the people sponging blood off their eyeballs [J/K!] At [...]

Particle Accelerators, Et Cetera

This was one rainy weekend, here in the greater Chicagoland area. Rain, rain, rain; more rain; rain clattering on the outside of one’s kitchen window air-conditioning unit, with the sound of an entire World War II artillery unit! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I did battle with the rain a time or two this weekend, generally forced to do so only by utter [...]

Could Be Said, Shan’t Be

There is a-much to say–a-much that could be said–of Colts games witheringly lost, and fall-crackle weather, and my new sewing machine, and the life story of the woman who wrote the sewing manual my grandmother gave me with the sewing machine, a woman named Ann Persons, who–according to her sewing manual’s introductory section–suffered through The Polio, [...]

Democracy! Democracy!

This past Sunday, August 31, was the one-year anniversary of my friend Aimee’s crazy-o-crazy bike accident. A traffic aide incorrectly guided her through a downtown intersection, where she was duly hit by a cab [the windshield of which was smashed by her helmet as she crashed into it in passing]. [Sweet Aimee is alive and well, for the [...]