I wanted to see some fall colors, so I decided to drive out to the Jemez northwest of Albuquerque today. My drive dropped me first at Perea Nature Trail, a hidden attraction at the corner of 550 and the turnoff to San Ysidiro and the Jemez Valley. The trail offered a nice walk through...
Read more →It took me 15 minutes to decide to drive over. Once I was in the lot in front of the bar, it took me another 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go in. I don’t know why. These are people I went to high school with, old classmates. These are people I’ve...
Read more →Tonight was game 5 between the Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs for the National League Division Championship. The winner would go on to play the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. I was ready to watch it at 6 PM. I was still watching it at 10:30, chewing my nails and covering my...
Read more →It is late- 20 minutes until midnight, when this blog turns into a pumpkin. It’ll just be basics today. Ben Lolli, my Chicago marathon rabbit, is coming through town this weekend and staying for a few days. As a result, I had to do some cleaning tonight. Cleaning is not my forté, but I...
Read more →I don’t have anything special tonight, so I thought I’d just pass on an article by an old friend who is on the radio in Seattle these days. We’re different people now, Don and I. We knew each other in high school, during a year when he was getting ready to leave Eldorado, and...
Read more →Tonight, I went to a few stores after work to pick up a few items I thought might help the house seem (at least, to me) a little spruced up. My needs were not grand. A few blankets for beds. Tissue (which I discovered I did not need more of after the fact). A...
Read more →We don this night astride our fight a certain brilliant hue an earnest sense of expectance above the fog we view. Grand harbors spurned long night lamps burned through hardship we have pressed hard pushed by sail past thief and gale awaiting hearth and rest. What’s gained was gained what’s lost was lost the...
Read more →I got up early this morning- 6 AM – as I have tried to do on recent Saturdays to just try and write a little. I am not really a morning person- sleeping in is one of my favorite things- but when I do get up early, I am always happy to watch the...
Read more →Postseason baseball started this week. On Tuesday, Yankees beat the Twins for the AL Wild Card slot. On Wednesday, the Diamondbacks beat the Rockies by a narrow margin to take the NL Wild Card. The 8 teams jumping into the playoffs were, in order of expected finish (from first to last in each division):...
Read more →I think it had probably been a week since I last saw my parents, and I was grateful we decided to go to dinner tonight. It was a normal old meal. The Quarters. Dad and his hot links sandwich. Mom and her Jack’s Special sandwich. Raspberry Tea to wash it down. And a necessary...
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Tonight I came home and did my usual exercise of minimalism. I came home and made a sandwich and turned on the TV to watch Arizona play Colorado for the wild card slot in the National League playoffs. I went outside around 6:30 and the sky was luminescent to the west but already dull...
Read more →Tonight was the fourth and final class of my second go in Gish’s “Writing Short Stories” course, and it was most enjoyable because each classmate got to take some time to both talk about why they wrote the story they ended up writing for class, and sharing portions from those stories. And there were...
Read more →After giving up on writing last night, I went to bed at a good time and slept decently well, and I woke up feeling oriented and optimistic about writing the story tonight. I went to work, and felt in decent shape, and had a little notebook with me to jot story thoughts down into...
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This evening I was glad it was game night- a good distraction from my writing frustrations of the weekend. It meant that I would join old game groupers Brian and Ron to play something which would let us escape real life for a few hours together and share a good meal, some good laughs,...
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