Thinking of You, Fudge Ripple
I am in the third day of a self-imposed hunger strike. No, not a writer’s strike. Sadly, I have no wages to contest. Nevertheless, I have made a vow, damn it, and it involves chocolate and ice cream and gummy worms. Yes, I ate way too much candy on Halloween and though I didn’t […]
Habeas Corpus, excerpt
I’ve been trying to finish the novel I started early last year. It is slow going but some progress, between raking leaves, walking the dog, volunteering in the classroom, painting the dining room and reading your blog, has been made. Since I haven’t had time to write a unique post today but did get some […]
Teacher of My Life
This weekend we received a copy of a lovely letter, one written to My Better Half’s 85 year-old grandmother, penned by one of her former students who remembers her, all these years later, as the pivotal figure in her academic career.
Few of us ever take the time to thank the people that have made […]
Welcome to middle age
Yesterday I got my hair cut. Okay, shorn is a more apt descriptive. I didn’t mean for the stylist to get so aggressive. I may have exaggerated when I declared that I was thinking of taking three inches off the bottom. I had had too much Pumpkin Decaf Latte. He should have known I was […]
Halloween pics are in
Late breaking addendum to previous post - Pictures are in:
Halloween Safe Harbor
I want to delight you with pictures of my children dressed up as Lady Liberty and a Monster of Loose Definition because they were every bit as adorable as your kids were, and, more importantly, I went through about an hour of sheer hell getting them prepared for their tour of the neighborhood and […]
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