Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I’m about to embark on a 5-day solo trip, the second one this summer, and probably the last for quite a while. This time it’s to Italy to see our daughter, her wonderful man, and spend time in their 14th-century stone mill house while it’s...
Aug 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From CB— I fart a lot. More than I ought to. I guess it comes with age, though I haven’t noticed it in other geezers. It may be that somehow you just don’t worry so much about it, or that it’s not as noticeable as it seems. True, you don’t want to add to usual...
Aug 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From EF— In December of 1967 we were rounding the last lap of our two years in Columbia, South Carolina, the first job after Conrad finished his PhD. That year a classic movie hit the screen wherein another new graduate was facing the prospect of his first job and...
Aug 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From CB— Don’t take this as expert opinion. I’m just your average dumb assertive citizen. We’re mostly a nation of immigrants. This comes up in political debates on immigration, but otherwise not. But to my mind, it has multiple ramifications. Immigration is not...
Aug 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I took a trip to the Midwest last week, the provocation being a high school reunion of the class of 1957, and I spent five days being a weaver. Each day was centered on a different part of my life, and weaving that yarn into a pattern was intense and...
Jul 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From CB— A friend wrote a post on her personal questioning of why she was alive. It elicited this: That raises the questions for all of us. I’m 82, faced daily with multiple maladies and appointments with specialists; my last novel (which we think is really good)...
Jul 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From EF— What’s at the heart? I took a photo of a big soft silvery bushy plant at our favorite coffee place, Hardcore Espresso. Molly has a wild collection of things growing in everything from old phone booths to half-bathtubs, a fertile profusion as wild and...
Jul 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From CB— There have been a series of posts promoting a “rule by women.” Despite the sad track record of many past & present female politicians, I think there might be a positive change … for a while. But to presume that any person, no matter what sex, sexual...
Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I have two cats, brother littermates: Garfunkel (known as Garfy), and Shadow. Garfy is a big burly shorthair who loves to be squeezed and has a purr you could hear in Cotati. Shadow is a smaller longhair with delicate bones, incredibly soft fur, and a purr...
Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
—From CB— The question came up on Facebook of “What makes for a successful marriage?” Most replies were jokes, of course: “A quick divorce,” “Saying ‘Yes dear,’ to everything,” “Lots of booze,” etc. In general, marriage has a pretty bad reputation, yet for something...
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