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Well I’ve finally gone and done it. There’s a new dog in the house. He’s a 3-year-old Australian cattle dog, small, sweet and shy. He settled in very quickly yesterday evening, and our first night went well, too. I’m calling him Buddy. He’s not answering to it yet, but then again he wasn’t answering to the name …[MORE] What’s Plan B? That can be the most important question, and one that is often not asked. A few years back, my golden retriever hurt a leg. Since she was clearly impaired and seemed to be in pain, we went off to the vet. After a thorough physical exam, the vet diagnosed a torn ACL. “We can fix that,” …[MORE] I have a small book entitled Six Word Memoirs. It is a fascinating collection of offerings from scores of people, famous and unknown, summing up their life experience in six words. This rings the “fixed format” bell in my head. I loved the idea, and I’ve toyed off and on with my own six words. Here are …[MORE] I recently purchased a couple of new accent chairs. I expected delivery early this morning, so late yesterday evening I started moving furniture around. And around. I finally got satisfied with the arrangement and went to bed. Upon rising, I walked into the living room and was instantly disoriented. The rearrangement of furniture I’d been living with for …[MORE] I’m yearning for the company of a dog. It’s been on my mind for some time now. I’ve been without a dog for almost two years, and I’ve deeply missed the company. When I lost my golden retriever Freeway, though, I made myself a promise not to get another while I was still working. I always lived …[MORE] I’m not sure when silence became extinct, but somewhere along the line it seems to have disappeared from daily life. Once there were great monuments to silence: churches, libraries, museums, lecture halls. Now it seems even these sanctuaries swell with a cacophony of multimedia buzz. Humans themselves are happily paying for the privilege of becoming cyborgs, it …[MORE] The genre of horror is one thing that quickly cleaves people into two groups. Some of us just love a good scare, while others avoid it like a vampire avoids a crucifix. I’m in the former group. A good horror book or film strikes me as positively delicious. I’ve felt that way since childhood. I always watched …[MORE] Over the years, I have slowly drifted away from one of my favorite pastimes: reading. As a young person, I was always reading. At any moment, you could frisk me and find a paperback in my purse. I’m not sure when that began to change, but certainly by my college years the trend was clear. After working …[MORE] For a year or more, I have lived with the intention of bringing back this blog. Since I was sincere, I penned a lot of “posts” that never got off the paper. These were usually scribbled out longhand during my lunch hour. I have a large box of folded sheets of paper with blurted thoughts …[MORE] Sorry, I’m just not feeling it today. Please come back tomorrow. |
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