September 27, 2011
Tags: Gilbert and Sullivan, stoicism, The Mikado
I’ve got my sugar ration down to just fruit. I had to do something. All my summer play clothes are loose and diaphanous. With the recent chill in the air I tried to pull on some real clothes and the biggest thing in my closet was tight. Not for the first time. For some of Read the Rest…
September 17, 2011
Tags: curlz, Freud, IRS, memory foam, Touch Not the Cat
In this recent spate of late but glorious summer, I did something I haven’t done in years because it hasn’t been warm enough. I dragged a chair into a shady patch of my yard where the lilac branches meet the tops of the black currant bush and create a cool cavern. I maneuvered the chair Read the Rest…
September 12, 2011
Tags: English majors, library, porcupines, St. Alphonse
I love the library. Librarians are right up there with pharmacists as people who are completely on my side. They are my advocates against censorship and insurance companies, respectively. So I don’t want to turn around and censor librarians but I have to wonder what exactly they are thinking with some peculiar signs I have Read the Rest…
September 5, 2011
Tags: Billy Collins, dissociation, fundamentalism, UCC
My blog topics are a result of little frissons I get in my solar plexus. Something funny happens and it laughs down there. Or something thrills when I feel passionate about an idea. Or I get triggered by something that upsets me so much I want to pretend it doesn’t. I got one of those Read the Rest…