Success!

I had a great day. I didn’t do everything on my list, but I wasn’t trying to either. I did work my ass off in the garden and yard. The drought has left the flowers is a sad state, but at least it’s all cleaned up, neat and orderly. Maybe some [...]

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Too Many Choices

This feels good.  There are so many things that I actually want to do today I don’t know where to begin.  Yard, work, a personal project I am working on, the chance to photograph old cars, and the need to do a little house cleaning.  Plus I am loving Ahab’s Wife and part of me [...]

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Vwip Vwip

Justin has decided to trade in his old, defunct Blogger site with a new WordPress site just for his musings. The Corduroy Ninja. Different than his comic. Different than the letters from his Dad. Forget how much space he’s taking up on the net–that man is trying to take over my blogroll.
And [...]

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An Apology

Just to be really clear. The man I love most in this world is right now in Mosul, Iraq carrying around an M-16 facing god knows what. I only hear from him once or twice a week. I spend every day in between scared to death that something has happened to him. [...]

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Clouds

This is for Julia and my Mom.  Two Aquarians that Mr. Brezsney has urged to look up and ponder the clouds.  My old friend David Higginbotham, poet-philosopher-king, once asked me in beautiful watercolor–Why to we look for linings/Among beautiful clouds?  In times of need I look to the clouds and try and find the place [...]

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Claim Forms

I went to the dentist last week and had three cavities filled. Felt like a 12 year old again. Except when I was 12 I didn’t have xanax. I have dental insurance–more of a way to force myself to get my 2 cleanings a year than anything. But in the event [...]

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What gets me through some days . . .

like today when I get an email from David and he is down, even though he got his first letter from me today he is still down. Julia says duh, he’s at war, is he supposed to be happy? No I guess not. None of us are happy and I guess we won’t be happy [...]

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The Soapbox

I haven’t felt much like being on a soapbox lately. It’s not that I have suddenly become apolitical or apathetic. I think it’s has more to do with being exhausted and overstressed. But Shannon posted a thread on DLC about the guy that got tazed and it touched a nerve with Julia so [...]

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The Faces

So I’ve added a new page so people can put faces with names, etc.  Shannon helped me with the code.  Thank you.  But I don’t have a  good picture of him.  And I need more rows.  Mom made me promise that I’d put a recent photo of her so you can see how beautiful she [...]

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Alright Alright

So I suck.  I did not go run.  My attempts to eat eat eat failed miserably.  Julia was so excited about the Steven Colbert Ice Cream.  I told her Sunday that I did dip into that.  Then I went to have some more and realized that I dipped my spoon in but twice.  However I [...]

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