The hotel was attached to a mall, which I must admit was convenient, since the extra space in my suitcase turned out to be due to my failure to pack pants. And it was convenient, because there was an Apple store there where I could take my dropped, broken laptop (only to have the genius […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Have You?
Wed, 29 Sep 2010, 08:35 PM (-06:00)
Have you seen the sky lately? Just after sunset with nary a cloud in the sky? As the soccer teams practice under bright white lights? With the western horizon still glowing pink and the east turning dark blue? Before the stars come out, with Venus sinking in the west and Jupiter rising in the east? […]
Celestial Bodies
Sat, 25 Sep 2010, 12:04 AM (-06:00)
Jupiter has been rising with the full harvest moon lately while Venus sets with the sun. The rain has been falling. The gound is wonderfully soft to walk upon. The grass has been growing. And the Zexmenia. And the Russian Sage. And the Wright’s Skullcap. And the Oak trees. And… And ants are herding aphids […]
Suburbia
Sat, 18 Sep 2010, 09:06 PM (-06:00)
We ran into Chris at Kerbey Lane. He was waiting for his friend Sam. We were waiting for a plate of hummus and tabouleh. While Chris waited, we invited him to join us at our table. We talked about our jobs and the economy and the neighborhood and about wildflowers and butterflies and the elementary […]
Facial Recognition
Sat, 18 Sep 2010, 08:50 PM (-06:00)
I needed a badge to get into the room where the class was being taught. My current one wouldn’t get me past the stainless steel doors that lead to the control center. So I went into the badging office and walked up to the counter, announcing myself and spelling my last name. Julia was dealing with the paperwork. […]
Thinking Too Much
Sat, 18 Sep 2010, 01:38 PM (-06:00)
I sat down at the computer the other day and read this article at the BBC about a study recently published in Science. According to the article, […] a nationwide survey recently found that some people think too much about life. These people have poorer memories, and they may also be depressed. When I read […]
Reading Our Books
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 07:00 PM (-06:00)
It was the end of the day. The fair and industrious Trudy was sitting in the green recliner with her feet up. She was reading a book. I was sitting in the beige recliner reading my book. Periodically she would chuckle and sometimes laugh out loud. I turned to watch her. She was smiling and chortling […]
Water, Water Everywhere
Tue, 7 Sep 2010, 05:05 PM (-06:00)
The August heat was brutal—not on us, we can always sit in the shade and drink iced tea or retreat to the house, but brutal on the garden. As we dug in the dirt last weekend, preparing for fall, we looked in horror at the parched, dry dirt just below the surface that we had […]
The Elder Statesman’s Lie
Wed, 25 Aug 2010, 04:13 PM (-06:00)
Former Senator and elder statesman Alan Simpson recently ignited a firestorm when he sent an insulting email regarding Social Security to Ashely Carson, Executive Director of the Older Women’s League, an organization that advocates on behalf of older women. The headlines have included his accusation that America has become a “milk cow with 310 million […]
$10.01
Mon, 23 Aug 2010, 09:01 PM (-06:00)
“That’ll be $3.46,” the girl behind the counter said. I pulled out a ten and then said, “Wait, I’ve got some change.” I looked at the coins in my hand: just a bunch of quarters and pennies. “Well, at least here’s the penny,” I said, and handed her $10.01. She didn’t flinch, which was a […]