Maggie was the curly-haired terrier that lived across the street from us with her soon-to-be-divorced cardiologist and housewife parents. She was orange and brown and weighed about as mush as I did in 1983 when I met her one spring afternoon as she came bounding across her parents’ front yard, across the street, and at [...]
This is a hard question for me to answer, as I wrestled in highschool like Andrew, got in trouble with the law a few times like Bender, participated in academic clubs like Brian, looked surprisingly pretty in makeup like Allison, and “never did it!” like Claire.
Given a mandate to pick just one, however, I’d have [...]
I learned today that at one’s 100th post, he is supposed to reveal 100 truths about himself. This is Number 101, but here goes:
1- I can’t write without music, a couple cocktails , or running. I prefer all 3, as I have done tonight.
2- Mute Math, Makers, and more than 2 miles works best.
3- It’s [...]
Pretty Bride and I were talking about punishment recently and how I thought “time out” was for pussies. She says The Literature says that spanking is not really the best way to teach children right from wrong. This got me to thinking about my childhood and the many, many whippings I endured when misunderstood or [...]
Today we went to Capitol Reef National Park. Then we went to Arches National Park. In Capitol Reef we saw 11 deer. We saw a black bull next to the road. Dad moo’d at it, and it looked at us real weird. I took a picture of him. Tomorrow we will go to Colorado. We [...]
