Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Mondays with June
Yesterday was crisp and dry, perfect morning for a hot cuppa coffee at Mickey D's. June was there, and Jean. We got into the current recession, the problems President-elect Obama will face in just two more weeks. Jean was on her way to a town meeting about the proposed expansion of a landfill. It...
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Review: "Morning Spy, Evening Spy," a novel by Colin MacKinnon.
Woven between chapters of this too realistic fiction is the day-to-day background on the terrorists who worked the plan on 9-11-01, the conspiracy to attack America by crashing airplanes into the World Trade Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The story is told from the point of...
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Eight Day Week
That's about how long the boys' dad has to finish rehab and decide what he's going to do next. This is a man who, even in his prime, could not make a decision. If we were taking him out to eat for his birthday, he'd never say where he wanted to go. Anyplace you choose is all right with me. If there...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Awake at 3:00 a.m.
Oprah is on. And her program may be better than the infomercials that compete for attention. Today (tonight?) she's showing off an amazing talented kid, this one a singer with a thing for Celene Dion. First of all, I don't enjoy Celene's singing, it irritates me. Does the world need another one? But...
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Friday, January 2, 2009
In case you ever wondered about Geoffrey A. Giraffe
You can grab a gander by visiting Naut's Thoughts. Nautikos has kindly posted a picture and a poem of his own about Giraffes. And believe it or not, he's rhymed it. Naut's Thoughts - Thank you Naut. Good job on the poem!
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Open House on New Year's Day
My friend Jean lives in a log cabin a couple miles outside of town. She's planted hundreds of trees, evergreens and hardwoods, and there's a nice pond just down the hill from her side window. There are wide paths, accessible by cars or afoot. She walks her two dogs every day through the woods, often...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Be happy. Absorb this book:
The Four Agreements: a Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz. The cover blurb calls this slender book "A practical guide to personal freedom." Endorsements on the back cover of this personal growth/self-help book are written by Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Dan Millman, which may well be the Super...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Auld Lang Syne...
Here's a toast to absent friends, the poets and singers, the dancers and do-ers, the muses who motivated us to say and do our best. How we miss their participation in the life of this place. Here’s to life and love and keeping on, to slogging through the mud. Here’s to bright moons and warm suns and...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Finally, a sunny day!
It was in the mid 50s yesterday, sunny. Great day for walking up to Coffee Heaven, but I didn't get up there. I met "the girls" at Mickey D's for coffee and conversation. We got into a discussion about school, and cliques, and being outsiders snubbed by the cool kids. Planet High School is an...
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Monday, December 29, 2008
I'm sending ten poems in for a literary contest.
In the new issue of Poets & Writers I came across a competition -- ten pages of fiction, or ten pages of poetry, there's a money prize and publication involved. So, starting my new years' resolution a couple days early, I'm getting my best stuff ready to meet their submission guidelines. I'm keeping...
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