From the bed races, we decided to walk on the canal. Skaters zoomed by, hands clasped behind their backs. Or they came by pulling toboggans loaded with boots and backpacks and sleepy kids. A few skated by slowly and tentatively, but the learners were few and the experts were many. Walkers such as us were […]
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Bed Races
Sun, 19 Feb 2012, 10:21 PM (-06:00)
When we last spoke, I was talking about a trip we took to Ottawa. It’s been a while now since we returned, but my story is only slowly coming out. 1. Getting Up Late On the morning of the third day, my father was waiting for us when we finally rolled out of bed. The […]
Morning Luxuries
Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 04:44 PM (-06:00)
We shift now to our recent trip to Ottawa, a trip from which we recently returned. What follow are several stories of that vacation… I suppose we should have been disappointed that we slept in. The two-hour Winterlude One-Block Challenge had started at 8:00am, and we would arrive an hour later. But no, we were […]
B
Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 11:22 PM (-06:00)
My story seems to be stuck in Kentucky even though I returned almost two months ago. There’s so much other stuff to talk about—riots in Athens as the schemes of Euro-bosses and technocrats seems to wash up on the rocks week after week, political calculus and triangulation in the United State that makes concessions to […]
Hotel Breakfast
Wed, 18 Jan 2012, 08:58 PM (-06:00)
When we spoke last, I was recounting a trip to Kentucky. I need to finish the story, and to do that we need to pick up where we left off… We met in the hotel restaurant for breakfast at 8:00 the morning of ceremony day. Burt and Jenny were there first, of course. And Bette […]
At Boone Tavern
Wed, 28 Dec 2011, 08:44 PM (-06:00)
My brother and I met at the airport in Louisville. He had flown from Chicago and I from Austin. He rented a car and drove us to Berea. Berea, Kentucky is not all that large, and Boone Tavern is hard to miss. We found it despite my dubious performance as a navigator, and we pulled […]
Letters
Fri, 4 Nov 2011, 06:41 PM (-06:00)
“Oh, I got your letter,” he said. “I liked it. Thanks.” I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that and was trying to remember what I had written (as it’s been a several weeks) when he continued. “I really liked it, because it reminded me of…” Reminded him of what? “…it reminded me of […]
AIrport Goodbye
Tue, 1 Mar 2011, 08:55 PM (-06:00)
It was a sunny day. The winds of yesterday were gone. The sky was blue. The air was warm. The Irises were beginning to bloom, and the leaves of some trees and woody shrubs were beginning to push out, if you noticed closely enough. She left on a sunny day for the cold white north. […]
Family Visits
Tue, 22 Feb 2011, 03:03 PM (-06:00)
1. My Brother My brother comes to visit frequently. He was here in October and then again this week. He said it seemed so long ago that he was here, but it wasn’t long ago at all. We are so spoiled that he comes to see us as often as he does. And I feel so […]
All the Way From Kentucky
Sat, 12 Feb 2011, 10:30 PM (-06:00)
The fair and industrious Trudy bought some strawberries on a sunny weekend a while ago. A few days later we put some soil in a whiskey barrel and two old leaky buckets, and we planted the five little plants. We gently surrounded them with a little bit of pine straw and a three inches of […]