Last Sunday night when I dropped in on my folks and my Dad and I clicked back through my Facebook pictures for the last two years, when we hit the Washington D.C. photos, I was hit with a wave of emotion. Not only did we realize I had not shown all of my photos...
Read more →Tonight, I started a four-week “Writing Short Stories” course offered by the Continuing Education arm of the University of New Mexico. The course, a second writing course I’ve taken through Continuing Ed, was meant to perhaps prompt me to write better and more creatively, like a Jolt Cola for my mind, I hoped. Once...
Read more →I wrote a short story this evening that wasn’t very good, and it was also kind of dark and potentially disturbing. It wasn’t anything too graphically crazy or filled with bad words. And I was going to post it here. But it ended dark enough, and after I read it, I wondered if anyone...
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After a pretty slovenly weekend in which I pretty much did as little as possible for one and a half days, I did do some very brief home care this afternoon before sunlight and the outdoors called, and picking a random direction, I drove north and after a while left the freeway and looked...
Read more →Today has been an odd day. It’s been kind of like everything that happened today has been on “mute”. Life spins and swirls around me, but everyone and everything I know feels far away, and I can see mouths moving, but I can’t hear anything. It’s the feeling of being a bubble boy. You...
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I had an interesting intersection of interests this week. It was partly due to seeing a famous photo a few years ago that I finally pushed myself to get up and to get out a little more to see some of the wondrous natural attractions in the region. The photo, taken by Edward S....
Read more →Funny how many days of our lives we live, and how few specific moments come back when we try and remember things. Well, maybe that’s just my case. It’s probably different when you have a family, because you have a bunch of big moments stored away with high emotional associations. Marriages, anniversaries, children born,...
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It’s a ritual now. Every few months- long enough after the last time so that it seems like it’s been a while, but short enough for my nephew Grant to remember to request it- my mom makes chicken and noodles. Mom’s chicken and noodles is the kind that is made with thick egg noodles...
Read more →It was around 6 PM when I finally left work tonight. I had had a quietly efficient day creating an index page for a website, despite the fact plumbers cut into ancient pipe in a gash in the floor 10 feet away from my work area, and a mixture of odors filled the air...
Read more →“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?” Luke 11:11-12 Ten days into the Trump administration, and it has been dizzying to see what the President and his people would do from one...
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And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 Recently, I find myself tiring a little more each day of visiting Facebook. It seems like every other post by people I know has become a political statement or...
Read more →Since the last few days have been about nostalgia, yesterday’s post ended up making me think about life in middle school, and what I remembered most from my mid school years. Because we moved across town when I was 9, I ended up attending junior high at Eisenhower Middle School- home of the Eisenhower...
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Earlier this week, digging some old disks out of storage led Tim to break out some old Mac SE’s from storage as well. Seeing the SE’s, I went in my garage and found and pulled out the second Mac I owned- a PowerBook 1400/CS. Digging out those old computers made think about some other...
Read more →It’s a fair question for this age: Where do you get your good? It’s a fair question because it’s not so easy any more to say what good is. And if good is such a thing, is it worth chasing? You know good is still out there because you can find videos on YouTube...
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Last evening, at the end of the work day, we had left Tim in the office thinking about how to raise the dead. After receiving a cache of floppy disks pulled out of storage by our colleague Dolores, it became imperative to see if they could be read. Along with those, she also brought...
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Tonight, and today, were a little better in my head than I guess they were last night. Early in the evening, I felt myself sitting in that familiar space, brain a big empty white board. My twin and daily writing inspiration Kristy texted me out of the blue to say that she had read...
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