Posts from the ‘Just a slice of heaven’ Category
Okay, I haven’t done this in a while, but this is a YouTube video my mom sent to me and it’s just so much fun I have to pass it along even though it’s not important or serious. But it’s got middle-aged people jitterbugging in it, and having a really good time as near as […]
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I was sitting out in front of the coffeeshop this morning, thinking that I haven’t had much to say about coming to Arizona. It was a beautiful morning, and I was feeling smart for figuring out just before everyone else that the sun was going to emerge and so we could all leave the safety […]
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Well, Greg and I had a difficult decision to make when we had been in Arizona for a few months. Folks who have read the blog regularly will know how very, very fond we were of good-dog Clementine, the bluetick coonhound. She was the only dog I’ve had that I could remember, but Greg, who […]
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Okay, I’m a little horrified. I knew it had been a while since I posted, but I didn’t know it had been a (boldface and italics intentional) while. I have to apologize (though as always when I’m blogging, I’m not exactly sure who I’m talking to). I have had a lot of things that occurred […]
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Brief, bitter complaint: Why do people feel like they have to have a TV set blaring away while they work out? Our complex has a little fitness room, and I’ve had to realize that I’m the weirdo for valuing silence as I move my muscles and bones about. Everyone else wants to hear a television set […]
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Here’s the essay I did for Melinda’s series of Orthodox artists and writers, My mother tells me that one of the real benefits that I offered to a weary parent (I was the last of four children) was that if you put me in a room with a pencil and paper, I could amuse myself […]
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Finally made it from there to here, from Kansas City, MO to Phoenix, AZ. So what have we learned? White Elephants on Parade Well, for one thing, it doesn’t matter how much you prepare for it — when you have to shift all your worldly goods worth shifting, it’s just appalling to notice how […]
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I don’t know quite why I feel the need to apologize when I haven’t posted in a while. It’s kind of a silly impulse, given that blogging is strictly optional to my life and has to be even more optional to my loyal reader(s). But I felt kind of bad when I realized that it […]
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Originally posted in 2008, this ode to the yellow seemed worth a re-run. Driving home from church, I kept noticing the banks of wild sunflowers at each new rise in the road. They surprise me every year: It’s too late for bunches and bunches of bright yellow sunflowers to appear in every gully, massing out […]
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I’m cat-sitting a friend whose place is really remote. Around here, what that means is that paved roads are a distant dream and gravel roads are deemed an affectation. And I’ve almost gotten used to the bouncy ride, and used to the part of it that goes through a cornfield, but I’m still not used […]
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