Noland’s brother,Noland, and friends.
I stopped by New England Life Care, a nursing home/rehab facility, not unlike Rivercrest, to see my buddy, Noland. This was my third visit. His bed was made, his chair, brought from home, empty. I had a present for him. “I’m looking for Noland. Is he is at rehab?” The nurse looked at me and […]
Dr. Herson walked back to where I was sitting and opened his textbook to a page of black and used-to-be-white graphs. He angled his straight edge so that it would intersect my age with my treadmill results. “See, this shows that you are in good shape for your age, even if not for you.†“I’ve […]
I’d just gotten home from work. I was chillin’ in front of my computer, before my shower, before Diane arrived back from wherever she was, and before our trip to the bookstore, Borders. Diane’s Lebanese born car salesman had convinced her to buy language tapes to improve her French (doesn’t that sound like something that […]
This week’s damage: New hard drive for DianeÃs computer: $164.00 (yes, Chris, it truly seems to be DCRÃs default solution to all intractable computer problems) New main board for my printer: $250.00 New radio/CD player to replace the one that died in my truck: $254.00
From An Invitation to Poetry, edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. On loan (rakkity knows what that means) from Chris. from “Clearances” When all the others were away at Mass I was all hers as we peeled potatoes. They broke the silence, let fall one by one Like solder weeping off the soldering iron: […]
The Carrizo Plain in the sky . Thanks to shinydome and rakkity. Silence There is the sudden silence of the crowd above a player not moving on the field, and the silence of the orchid. The silence of the falling vase before it strikes the floor, the silence of the belt when it is not […]
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From shinydome’s son to shinydome to the blog. The Carrizo Plain which is between Bakersfield and Paso Robles.
Lot’sa moms Jennifer will have to help me here, but I think: her sister, her mother( Nancy), Jennifer, unknown, Jennifer’s grandmother. I’m guessing the baby in Jennifer’s arms is her eldest daughter. View larger image e.e. cummings – i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my […]
Lot’sa moms Jennifer will have to help me here, but I think: her sister, her mother( Nancy), Jennifer, unknown, Jennifer’s grandmother. I’m guessing the baby in Jennifer’s arms is her eldest daughter. View larger image e.e. cummings – i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my […]
From Nancy Tomlinson Hall Rice’s (Jennifer’s mother) Senior Paper, October, 1952 Well, so perhaps my need to write, up through my freshman year in college, can be attributed simply to the fact that I wanted to be like my mother, and was copying those things which seemed to be important to her, without having any […]