A while ago I told Ember, “I’d do anything for you.” No reply. It seemed like she didn’t hear me. Fast-forward to this week. A master of prolonging bedtime, she draws on techniques like engaging me with interesting questions she knows I can’t help but answer, or requesting things that seem suddenly essential. A few nights ago after I’d gotten her all tucked in, she asked for a back rub. I declined, on account of […]
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Stories from the hearth
Deck the Dogs
Merrrry Christmas (almost). My sister asked me what the collective noun might be for “Christians.” I suggested “a hypocrisy.” Featured News 1. Ember found a new pet. 2. We had a power outage so I dug out camping supplies from my dark basement, and—voilá—bright as day. 3. Here’s what I’d look like if I faced you without my skin on. 4. At the dentist two days ago, I bit the assistant. It was her fault. […]
Read moreAmazing Gracelessness
In 1976, at my father’s insistence, I learned to touch-type in a Heald Business College course during my last semester of art school. Eventually I achieved the stunning speed of 35 words per minute (if you don’t subtract for errors, which would have made it negative 80 w.p.m.). Though it was standard to require a minimum of 65 words a minute for a secretarial job, upon my graduation I was hired at a brokerage firm […]
Read moreNine-Pound Hammer
For several weeks TJ and I have been writing chain stories back and forth (one person writes an installment and the other picks up where she left off), but it’s been ages since I last wrote here on Bloggy. Yikes: it was July 29. How’d that happen? I can’t tell you what’s been going on since then since it’s just a blur. Ember returned to me on August 10 and began school on the 15th. […]
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