It’s the middle of the fourth inning in game five of the series between the Cubs and the Dodgers. It’s a game where, if the Cubs won, they would prolong their season another day, and where if the Dodgers won, they would be heading to the 2017 World Series. It’s 9-0 Los Angeles right...
Read more →Tonight I boycotted a Lobo men’s soccer match against UCLA after work to sit through what might have been the final game of the season for the Cubs. I felt it was my duty to watch the game, despite the fact the Cubs were down 3-0 in a 4 game series to the Dodgers....
Read more →You drew the plan and chose the lot and leveled the earth and tore out the trees and laid the slab and placed the pipes and raised the walls and spaced the windows and mulled the materials and set the roof and attached the shingles and picked each door and painted each room and...
Read more →Love doesn’t always give us what we want. It flies from what we wish, what we dream, these radiant visions, and lifts our hopes for the right, the strong, the good, so when the painted picture dries, and perfection stares back at us, in brilliant hues, we see truth, and promise, and clarity. Passion...
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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...
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