Miles from nowhere…
We leave tomorrow. The train is scheduled to stop in Greensboro at 4 AM, and we’re scheduled to be on it. Scheduled…that’s a word that defines the next six weeks. I look forward to it with both anticipation and a deep sense of fatigue. I am weary in my […]
I’d just returned from a trip to town and was describing to Todd the latest assaults on the natural world (called “development” by the locals) I’d seen driving home. “Get me the puck outta here!” I cried.
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“It’s a joke from elementary school… One person says “Hey… you… make like a hockey stick!” and the other […]
This morning’s sticky, waiting for me when I awoke, was big and yellow and said only this: tell them about the shrews
I smiled. Yeah. Good idea. I plodded downstairs to make some coffee, petted our old Jerry Springer Spaniel, Jenny, and hummed, chin to cranium, into her deaf little head, as […]
It was May of this year. North Carolina. The University thereof, in fact. At Chapel Hill. Rah, Rah, Car’lina-lina and all that. Sunday. Commencement Day. Mother’s Day. My elder daughter, Hannah, was there, dressed in cap and gown and not-quite-sensible shoes, commencing with a few thousands of her […]
Continue reading...People write us the most amazing things.
I’ve thought about starting a “Dear Sally” column where some of what people write can be shared with others. It might give courage and inspiration. I’m tempted to jump into this because it would be fun and inspiring for me too. But right now I just […]