Let’s Not Be Friends

Men really are pigs, aren’t they? I spent last evening in the company of the dear Mrs. O (aka “The Wife”) and the enchanting Mrs. M (aka “Not The Wife”), enjoying a pint of IPA, several pints of water and fascinating/painful/arousing/embarrassing conversation. Jennie, less reasonably, but still responsibly, enjoyed two pints of Jacob Marley, and […]

Three Minutes Is All I Ask

Damn you, NPR!. You’ve issued a challenge and now I am thinking of keeping this thing going, at least long enough to pump out six hundred words in some semblance of order. Now I need some ideas to rattle ’round in my empty head. Six hundred is actually the maximum, not minimum, so perhaps Hemingway […]

Food Rebel

It goes to show that I am rigid and lacking in imagination. Where she sees the sensuous dining experience of finger food, I see a fully-dressed house salad and someone who needs to pick up her damned fork. Dining at 6 Rivers is always an entertaining, albeit frequently overly-loud and understaffed, experience, and Saturday night […]

An Education

I am a firm believer that you should learn something new every day. Whether it be a new recipe, the square root of some ridiculous number, or how to julienne a carrot (you can julienne carrots, can’t you? Hm, I may have my next learning experience picked out already!), it is good to learn and […]

Cameras, Ropes and Down On All Fours . . .

Monday evening and I feel the outcast. The sun sets over the Pacific, and I am the only one on Moonstone without a dog, camera or climbing equipment. Judging by the preponderance of four-legged friends and ropes, I am in the serious minority not having two, if not all three, of these. It is warm […]

Common Themes For Me

I slipped away from the pages, distracted by the move. I have no illusions; it will happen again and again. For now, if only briefly, I am back and writing down the lumps that clog my brain. Occasionally I even manage to get them from paper to computer, rather than the usual path of paper […]

The one constant in life we can always count on is that I will hurt you

Oh hey! It’s a crappy poetry day! I need to get out more, I think. I see the sun shining through the blinds, but I’m sitting here with bad lighting, pain and a seriously funky attitude just beyond the sunbeams. Yes you’re beautiful and I love you so Too bad I have to lie and […]

Brain, Pain, Egg

My shoulder has improved a bit, but is still painful to use, and my left arm is still considerably weaker. I need to go back for a recheck and to discuss surgical options, but I really do not feel like being hacked open. If only I were a Lego figurine, the doctor could just snap […]

Reform

So, health care reform passed. My daughter’s civics teacher is going to be ticked. She (a public school teacher, her salary paid for via taxes) feels that her taxes shouldn’t be spent to help other people. Not very civic-minded . . . I’m not sure why the TeaBag Army, or whatever they are calling themselves […]

Attraction and Revulsion

I can hear the chocolate calling me. I’ve given in, sucking down a dozen dark chocolate, cocoa-dusted almonds over the last hour, and still they cry out to me. Jennie claimed that urges are your body telling you you need something. Does this mean I am low on dusted chocolate pleasure? Not speaking of which, […]