My mother sent myself and some brothers and sisters a few pictures from home two weeks ago, e-mail-ily. She wrote:
“For those who haven’t seen the house this fall. These are both from the back deck…Today most of the leaves are biting the dust–windy and rainy.”
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These pictures look like the house is in a goshdurn woodland glen, untouched by [...]
In one of those Halloween shops this weekend, with Bridgid. You know–those Halloween shops, the ones that randomly spring from the earth this time of year, like earthworms from the soil after a driving rain; except for the fact that earthworms are an important part of the cycle of life, the give and take of our ecosystem, the tapestry [...]
Home in Indianapolis for the weekend, for my niece’s sixth birthday party.
I got in late Friday night. On Saturday morning, my parents made breakfast, and we randomly began watching a Western film that was on the TV. My pa’s a real fan of Westerns. This particular Western was called:
ULZANA’S RAID
Of “Ulzana’s Raid”, I will say this. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
One [...]
I was on Spring Break last week [on the real. I had a SPRING BREAK]. And each morning, when I awoke, a beautiful unicorn named Mistywinters was outside my bedroom window with a tray of food, so that I could have my breakfast in bed! Then we would go riding in the forest together, and pick apples made of dragons’ gold! Hoorah!
That’s [...]
I got home tonight from an Easter spell on the homefront. I’m tired, I’m luggage, I’m _______.
Thusly, I’m going to Post The Real Deal on Wednesday, aka Tax Day. I can’t give this week a miss, gentle readers. Too much pudding-goodness going on. Too much pirate.
On Monday morning, I was “rapping” [you'll have heard of that?] with [...]
E-mail from my mother:
“Our Dunkin Donuts is now open. Dad and I were the 4th and 5th customers, garnering a free copy of the Daily Journal and 2 DD coffee mugs. I think that is embarrassing, but your dad was thrilled. It opened on Tuesday at 5 am, and we were just leaving chapel, so [...]
So I don’t quite know how this came up the other day, but I hate Lolcats.
What the hell does that even mean?
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Beauteous sentence in an essay I read:
“Buoyant! Disarticulated. Tongue the more untied.”
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Right now, I’m c-r-a-z-y-i-n-l-o-v-e with
BUBBLE CHAMBERS
A bubble chamber is a “vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid [most often liquid hydrogen] used to [...]
Let’s talk about… oh-I-don’t-know the US Airways Airbus A320 Hudson River water-landing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
There are many, many things to marvel at–not least among them the name of the pilot,
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]
–but better, even, much, are the stories of plain old ferries and boats rushing to the downed plane from wherever they were to [...]
On Christmas Eve, we turned on “A Christmas Story” in the kitchen, as pecans were being chopped and sugar was being sprinkled and dumplings were being rolled and dreams were being baked and et cetera. It had reached the point in the movie where Ralphie had finally gotten his BB gun, and “all hell” hovered [...]
This blog was all ready to go–all ready to roll down the silo chute like a sack of soybeans–when a Late-Breaking Update occurred. Namely, the birth of my niece! She’s Lucky Number 5, in my annals of niece and nephewdom.
Her middle name was selected based on the fact that she was born on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception.
Heee-ey!
Welcome to [...]
