A Little Quiet, Followed By Loud

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 [...]

Three Nights Two Days

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 Am Energy

I don’t really have a good explanation for showing this to you, opening the whole blog with it, even; it was posted on a Livejournal board I was reading this weekend. If’n I’d been drinking something, water or such, I would’ve spat it to the Mississippi.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I MEAN COME ON
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Livejournal is such a funny beast [and the [...]

Christmas, Or: I Received A Paper Cutter LA LA LA

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 [...]

In-Indiana

I truly love this, from last Friday’s Chicago Tribune [in reference to the "trouncing" we supposedly took from Old Man Winter the night before, if by "trouncing" you mean "not a trouncing" or "not enough snow to frost a cupcake" or "we've all got cupcakes for hearts if we think that weather was a trouncing" [...]

Vergangenheitsbewaltigung

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 [...]

B-Day, And I’m Not Talking About The Crushingly Danceable 2006 Beyonce Knowles Album

Hey, it’s my birthday!
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My family celebrated the ol’ special day on Sunday, when I was home for Thanksgiving, practically lolling around in mashed potatoes. [Ick.] My parents gifted me a Joseph Addai Colts jersey aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I’ve been asking for this jersey for all of my life. When I opened the box and saw what was inside, I nearly ripped [...]

Sloops, Sleeps

Sleepless nights are the devil’s own, I tell ye, and I’ve been having them lots and lots lately. I had one just the other night. I couldn’t locate sleep on a map, a detailed map with topographical details and vivid red arrows that pointed to ”Sleep: two nautical miles” and “Sleep: this-a-way” and “Sleep: look here, cowpoke, a whole Great [...]

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 [...]

Basically My Whole Weekend

Last Thursday:
1. I remembered that Charles Simic, Poet Laureate of the United States, would be reading at the Harold Washington Library on April 26.
2. I remembered that I had planned on attending this reading, despite the fact that the work of Charles Simic makes me feel as though my head is filling up with potting [...]