Fun With Words: OO

In the movie Educating Rita, Julie Walters tells Michael Caine that assonance means “getting the rhyme wrong.” The example he gives her to provoke this response is the poet Yeats, who pronounced his name all wrong [Yates — same letters, better organization], who rhymes “swan” with “stone.” I thought about this after last night’s episode […]

A History of TL, in Bikes (Part I)

When I was 7, possibly 8, Kent Baril and I were riding our bikes down the College Hill when we both wiped out at the same time on separate bikes in two separate spaces. There must have been a bunch of gravel on the road; I still don’t know what caused it. All I know […]

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

This is what I told the owner of my bike shop a couple months back: I’m no longer a bicyclist who sometimes drives a car; I’m now a motorist who sometimes rides a bike. Hands-down, the hardest part of moving to this house for me has been the alteration of my modes of transportation. Most […]

More Power

So I’m on electricity again. Still. It’s a constant. (And right as I type this, two men from GCEA have arrived to put a “quality monitor” on our line.) Today’s wonderment comes after all I wanted to do was see how much electricity my new Level 2 charger (really Electric Vehicle Service Equipment) was pulling. […]

Nailed It

Often on Saturdays, I don’t feel like I get much done, no matter how much I move around and knock tasks off my list. But yesterday felt extremely productive, and I’m pretty sure it’s because I made something with my own two hands. In addition to the usual laundry and the purchasing of milk and […]

Acu-punctured

I have been wasting money in our health care system, and I am not happy about it. For the privilege of having health insurance, I get to pay more than I would had I been a “private pay” patient. Our hospital, which is a rather amoeba-like construction vacuuming up all the health care options in […]

Sugar, Sugar

I have an announcement, all you doubting Sam-I-ams: I don’t know about green eggs and ham, but I do like petit fours. I do like them. I haven’t tried them with a fox, although they came in a box. Yes, Lynn took pity on me, or tired of my whining, or something. Not enough pity […]

New Year’s Resolve

So today it’s 2020, and I already heard one dad make his children groan as he was interviewed on the Sixteenth Street Mall in Denver, saying we will all see better in 2020. I also yesterday heard some man in Boulder, who works for a national institute of weights and measures or some such (Boulder […]