Apparently my Father died yesterday of cancer. Strangely, I’ve been going through my old blog posts for days and I was re-reading this post from 2004, from a visit I made to my estranged family in TN. I was just finished re-reading it when my Mother called with the news. It is a strange [...]
I have a pang of anxiety when I realize I know many of the words to “Party rock”
But somehow I remember “Rock Lobster” was a work of art to me.
Diagnosis: I am old
Spending time in my childhood home looking through old “stuff” I found some high school notebooks. Much of the class stuff had been trashed years ago but a few items remain. I was struck by a quote I had captured when I was 16 or 17 at the time I was first entranced by Plato/Socrates. [...]
“Open and honest” communications are rare. People typically engage in socially acceptable conversations; problem-solving brainstorms; polite and appropriate exchanges of niceties; superficial divulgences of “confidence”; comfortable discussions of daily activities/events; confluences of mutual support/agony; comedic interpretations; nostalgic remembrances of prior days (judiciously edited for the conversation at hand); malicious gossip; entertaining breaks of humor; or [...]
We had an unannounced house guest last weekend. At first it was a bit of a horrific surprise, but after a bit she became a curious new entity to discover. Apparently some people even keep these “Stick Bugs” as pets.
I’ll ’stick’ with Tukla.
(NOTE: the width of each of the wooden boards is 6 [...]
awk-ward Pronunciation [awk-werd] –adjective
1. Atttending emergency meetings at work to deal with actions taken by groups I belong to as a private individual.
Blyss and I were recently trying to decide what songs on our ipods were the most embarrassing if anyone else were to know about them.
Personally I think mine would have to be a generic version of “The Chicken Dance”. However, I think Blyss beat me when she admitted to having a Miley Cyrus song.
The only [...]
Tukla, the newest addition to our home. She was born June 8, 2008 and arrived at our home yesterday evening.
Already she’s a curious and naughty accompaniment to the family. [Check flickr for some additional pics...links on my sidebar.]
Working in the yard over the weekend, I almost blew out my flip-flop on this Pepper pop-top.
Ever since those early days of the water wars human beings have been trying to figure out what makes one thing one thing and another thing another thing. In very general terms, there have always been some people who are more comfortable with Being and some people who are more comfortable with Becoming. The Being [...]
