Come on inside No, the party has died You shoulda got here by four Everyone’s gone, including your Mom, who thought you went off to the store Well, I guess take a seat- here’s something to eat how ’bout a glass of beer I’m sorry you missed it So hard to resist it the...
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This afternoon I decided to empty out my truck of all the stuff I had let collect in it over the last something-something months. My wish was ti just strip the insides back down to where there was nothing in the cab that didn’t need to be there. This meant removing a few old...
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Today was a good “Turn down the noise” day after the last few days of worldwide heaviness. For me, it started with some errands, which I am not prone to do on a Saturday morning, and then led into an afternoon of some research for an upcoming trip while watching or listening to Lobo...
Read more →A few days ago, my sister went into her dermatologist to have some bad cells removed. In the process, there were more bad cells to be removed than they all thought. She came home with a mound of gauze over her nose and some swollen areas under the eyes. Now, my sister spars in...
Read more →This morning, I was a little surprised to look outside very early, and under the new sunlight was a layer of white on the ground. Naturally, much of the white stuff was gone by this afternoon, but the snow lent itself to the mood for the day. I stayed up a bit too late...
Read more →It is 9:40 PM in Albuquerque, and reports say that Putin has begun his invasion of the Ukraine. Under gray clouds and chilly temperatures locally, I know that there is no good that will come out of this for the world. This is a reenactment of a chapter written long ago, in which there...
Read more →It’s not uncommon now, at my age, to hear that advice when I visit the doctor’s office. I am past the age and metabolism where my calorie intake is outpaced by my activeness. Heck, eating is often my activeness. Which is why doctors say lose the extra weight, the fluff, if you can. Your...
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I got a text from Kurt last night, asking if I wanted to try the Loop again. We can walk part of it. We’ll have to- I am out of shape. When I got up, we met and enjoyed a slow clod around the Academy, and seeing the sun pop up over the Sandias...
Read more →I thought I’d go with this today for my post as 1) I feel I have pretty much zero experience as an adult in a positive, mature grown-up romantic relationship, 2) I love Dan and Shay, and 3) the lyrics to this song are pretty amazing and insightful to me, as they represent an...
Read more →Too often I find myself wondering what happened so that I stopped emotionally growing at age seventeen Because I cannot seem to leave that place where I seemed to have left myself or maybe life left me behind Because it has been all fuzzy since then time spent waiting for something to start for...
Read more →It was nice to wake up this morning to gray skies blanketed over a strong flurry of falling snows outside. It was another true winter day, which I find a really enjoy as an alternative to our prevalent good weather in Albuquerque. Before I awoke to see the snowy skies, though, I was sitting...
Read more →Ever since I got up this morning, I have been cold in the house today. I went out at lunch and took a walk, and I was warmer under a winter sun. But by afternoon, gray clouds started collecting over the city. The Weather app on my phone said it has a good chance...
Read more →Did you know that two chemists in Worcestshire, England, sort of accidentally on purpose made the peculiar concoction in the early 1800’s? With an interest in recreating an ancient fish sauce, a concoction of mixed ingredients was created and sampled, and too pungent for any tongue, so the story goes, the barrel of sauce...
Read more →Today, I read several chapters in “To Kill A Mockingbird”, which was given to me a few years ago by my niece one Christmas. I have never read the book before, even if maybe I was supposed to in middle school and I didn’t. I am pretty sure these parts from the book are...
Read more →I would like to let you go on to a better life and better places where you might find more warmth and less thunder but it’s too painful for me to admit that I failed and could not keep my end of the bargain despite all of my trying and my efforts to refute...
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