I had a grand time yesterday when Eleni, Emmy, Jason and Jesse came over to celebrate Eleni’s 36th birthday. Eleni bought me mole poblano for dunch (after lunch, before dinner) and Emmy and I worked on making scores of Valentine’s cards for her nursery school colleagues. Rubber stamps, red inks and heart-shaped hole punches were the tools of the day. Outside, we collected rolly-pollies in the sandbox and scrutinized them—and also mushrooms and sorrel—through my pocket […]
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Death, Unemployment and a Broken Blog
First, the blog: today I noticed that all internal links are broken. If you try to go from one post to the next, you get nothing but an error. If you try to search by clicking on a calendar date, there’s that error again. All the automatically inserted links in the blog are busted, and I don’t know what to do. The site is essentially useless and inaccessible. So why am I bothering to write […]
Read moreDigit Trouble
Today while I was pumping gas, the car door closed on my right thumb, which I have to say was extremely uncomfortable. I couldn’t pull my paw out. It took me a few seconds to figure out that I needed to twist around and use my other hand to open the door. My thumb is rather unhappy now. And then last week I slammed the big metal warehouse door at work on my middle finger, […]
Read moreFarewell to My Hills
This will be short since I’m composing on an iPad keyboard which is not fun. I’m on the plane on the way back from West Virginia where I had a wonderful time with my mother and my sister. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Did you know that the iPad has an auto-fill feature whereby if you type a word, it suggests your next words for you? Then, if you select one of these, it pops […]
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