http://www.madmarriage.com/blog Just another happy day in suburbia Sat, 10 May 2008 14:52:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm not dead. Nor have I given up blogging. I'm just technologically challenged right now...MBH went on a biz. trip with the laptop early in the week and left the power cord at an office in Florida. Until I receive a FedEx package (hopefully Monday) I've got very limited computer ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/05/10/im-not-dead/ It was an odd weekend...I'm glad to be back to Monday and all the familiar rhythyms of the work-a-day. Saturday and Sunday had a cold drizzle punctuated by periods of hard driving rain, the back drop to Friday night's Chernoybl-like meltdown with My Better Half and Saturday morning's damp and ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/05/05/trauma-of-the-athletic-variety/ It's Friday and the reason I'm not here writing sensual poems with unhappy endings is because I've gone to the gym to dash off a quick three miles and hurl myself through the Nautilus circuit so I can be in G's classroom by 10:30 where I will volunteer to be ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/05/02/mia/ I'm a week off. Somehow everything I've scheduled for the first week in May seems like it should be happening NEXT week. I need a pinch, a swift kick in the ass. How did the calendar roll over a whole seven days before I was ready for Mayness? Coincidentally and ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/05/01/artifacts-and-love-letters/ Silence Breasts bared in a cool dark room, Nipples stand and swell in the glow of iniquity, This is how he'll remember it- Just an outline, a vague light creeping From beneath silken drapes, closed for privacy. Tilted hips on a soft white bed. The fragile trill of her laughter beneath the palm of his ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/29/today-in-poetry-ii/ I know, I know, three days without a post. But it's all over now...all that up my ass-ocity. I'm busy reclaiming my own slice of routine and normalcy save for the entire right side of my face which is still numb after enduring an excavation and a filling. This morning, ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/28/white-cake-and-cavities/ I should be posting something lovely and springfully poignant but it's April vacation and the kids are up my ass, and My Better Half works from home, so he too is up my ass, and the cats and the dog and the two Siamese fighting fish are up my ass. ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/24/the-grass-is-always-greener/ I am shamelessly borrowing Mark Bazer of the Chicago Trib's piece called Spousal Review. What better way to kick off the Spring season than with blatant judgment and acerbic commentary on one's domestic relationships? Apparently Mark and his wife have found some sort of connubial equilibrium by, "each keeping a notebook in ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/22/annual-performance-review/ Today is the beginning of April break and, as is always the case here in New England, the first Monday of the week long vacation is Patriot's Day. Having grown up in these parts, Patriot's Day has always just one of those holidays that is part of a long weekend, ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-straw-that-broke-the-race-horses-back/ It's spring and it's All Red Sox All the time at my house these days. I've had to warn the kids that baseball is the kind of sport that is played round-the-clock, each and every day until November and if we don't fight the compulsion to watch every bleeding game ... http://www.madmarriage.com/blog/2008/04/17/interested-and-interesting/