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 […]
Chris, the internet reader, sent me this link . If you have any interest in Bruce Springsteen, it is one of those ìmust reads.î Susan arrived yesterday as I was putting dinner on the table. Matt did his caged lion act, forced to sit with us twice as long as normal. After dinner, he bolted […]
Sent by a friend: Coin Operator
Last night we saw The Phantom of the Opera. In Diane’s words,â€Who knew we’d see something so good?†If I were a theater reviewer my column would have one word – “Go.†Matt brought his friend, Debbie, and we arrived early so we could have dinner before the play. Matt, the skeptic, kept asking me, […]
Averno Louise Gluck Averno. Ancient name, Avernus. A small crater lake, ten miles west of Naples, Italy; regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. 1 You die when your spirit dies. Otherwise, you live. You may not do a good job of it, but you go on — something you have […]
Maybe we eat there too much? Diane and I sat down at our local sushi restaurant two days after I bonked my forehead. Our waitress asked, “What did you do to yourself?†I said, “Diane hit me with a rolling pin.†I got my laugh and then I continued, “I’ll have a Sapporo and…†She […]