I want to pop onto Bloggy one last time in 2021, just to bid formal adieu to a pretty funky year that was preceded by another pretty funky year. Since three’s the charm, it’ll be better this go ’round, right? New Year’s Eve is hours away. This morning Ma asked me if I had any resolutions. Nope. In this time of uncertainty, ambitious aspirations are beyond me. Instead, I’m taking a wait-and-see approach. For no […]
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Visions of Seasonal Things Dancing in Your Heads
My dreams lately haven’t been barrels of laughs, but it’s been a while since I had one of my usual night terrors—until a few nights ago. Boy, was it a whopper. Here are events that I suspect precipitated it: A week before, I’d learned I’d been exposed to Covid during one of my rare social visits outdoors. (Luckily I dodged that bullet, but man, were the ensuing days filled with waves of anxiety.) A week […]
Read more‘Tis the Season, Yet Again
I do miss my radio days. For old time’s sake, here’s my half-hour Christmas/Winter/Solstice/Kwanzaa documentary. Enjoy. Every week or so, I check Google for news of Bill Bricker, to see if there are new developments I’d been unaware of. Today I found an article in a British newspaper, of all things. The number of victims stepping forward has gone from two to three, out of a possible hundred in total. [Bricker] was later charged with immoral and indecent […]
Read moreMy Mother the Poet
I found this draft of a post from two years ago, which for some reason I never published. Since ’tis the season once again, I may as well show it to you belatedly. Back then, I wrote: Today I received a small box of familiar Christmas ornaments, topped with this hand-penned explanation from my skilled and wee mommy: By Way of Explaining the Contents of This Package That annual tradition— The choosing of “The Tree,” […]
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