Home Schooled

I learned something from my shower: yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the debut of Sesame Street on PBS. I’ll bet you don’t learn these kinds of things from your shower. My shower, which is special in every sense of the word, comes with an FM radio, and somewhere along the way recently I finally […]

To The Stars

I played hooky yesterday morning, watching a Star Trek movie on TV just like I had nothing else in the world going on. This may have been the first Saturday since we got serious about moving that I’ve done anything like that. I saw that Star Trek: Generations, which handed the movie franchise off from […]

Carrying On

Yesterday one of my many friends named Bob apparently clawed his way back from Death’s doorstep. Again. He has been camped on the front porch for the better part of a year, or longer, and there he remains, but not right on the sill where he has ventured more times than all the cats he […]

In My Hands

It’s a weird thing, to hold a human life in your hands. This happened to me yesterday, from a quarter I never expected. I came back from voting to work, where two people I didn’t recognize were waiting to talk to me. Turns out, while I’d never met them, I was quite familiar with their […]

Saga of the Shed

I realize I’ve been slacking on my blogging. I’ve spent most of my non-Daylight Saving Time sleeping, like a hibernating bear. Time changes mess with me. Yesterday while we were eating lunch, Lynn looked out our windows and exclaimed, almost indignantly, “There’s a shed!” Sure enough, heading down Kokanee (Road? Street? Avenue?) was a pick-up […]

Hollow-een

Lynn and I did something quite novel two nights ago: we sat in our house with the lights on. On Halloween. This is the first year in decades that I have not been in the Palisades subdivision, where Halloween is A Thing. Not necessarily planned or wanted by residents, but a Big Thing for all […]

Six Little Words

So I was reading Firefox-suggested articles again, and this time it was about words that make the user sound weak. If we are going to believe this article, which I found to be somewhat suspect, my blog is one long series of weaknesses. As a student and teacher of writing, I have long been aware […]

Worth the Wait?

It’s here it’s here it’s here! Imagine! Just five short months after it was paid for, the over-the-stove microwave is in place and operable. Which ought to be exciting, but frankly it’s so anti-climatic that it was hardly worth the wait. The problems are more noticeable than the pluses. The first thing I noticed is […]

Just Nuts

It was an absolutely beautiful fall weekend on Saturday and Sunday, skies blue, temperatures pleasant in the high 50s — and I was irritable all weekend. Like a lazy woodland creature, I did not have all my nuts squirreled away in the tree, and time was a-wasting. Snow was in the forecast, so this was […]

Listen Up

If you use Firefox, as I do, for your browser (and somehow I’m using Duck Duck Go within that framework — I cannot explain the internet to you), then you know that every time you open a new tab, you are presented with an infinite number of reading options. Some of these options take […]