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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Hi Michael, All this talk about grammar on the blog reminded me of this column I read in the New Yorker. I didn’t realize how clever it was until the very end. Can you see it? pesky godson

The year Hilary turned 3, we had a very large party for her. We had aunts, uncles, cousins along with a smattering of playgroup friends totally something like 40 people in the house. Fully dressed in her party dress, pink tights, black Mary Jane’s and hair in pig tails, she quietly disappeared from the party. […]

I read like a goat eats. I don’t see punctuation, and whatever is in my way, well, it sure doesn’t effect my comprehension, as it clearly does smiling Dan’s. Btw, Jennifer, nice grenade you launched at him a while back. I’m guessing he didn’t see it. However, whenever I read something I’ve written, say, more […]

Mike, Nothin’ like a new snow to let you in on the otherwise unseen goings on of one’s “wild” backyard — I’m guessing Felis silvestris catus from back right to front left, with an evidently time-other passage of Sciurus carolinensus middle left to front right. Adam

by Wendell Berry 1. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and the nightsongs, of birds opening around you as you walk. You are holding in your body the dark seed of my sleep. 2. This comes after silence. Was it something I said […]

We’re going to see Molly in “Gary” at the Boston Playrights’ Theatre on Friday. If you click on the Media link on her website you’ll get to this week’s short Youtube skit.

Mike, No matter how cold it gets, and no matter how much it snows in NE or CO, there is always one place that’s colder and snowier — Antarctica, where these pictures of a “Frozen Wave” were taken. One wild-eyed blogger claims that these show an ocean wave that punctured the sea ice and froze […]