Month: November 2005

city folks

My father called me from his cell phone this morning and asked me to locate something online. “They don’t make that any more but I’ll try to find a place to order it online.” “I’m almost to Nashville. Find a store there that sells it.” “Dad, if Knoxville doesn’t have it, why would Nashville have […]

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Today’s Goals Me – laundry, dishes, buy 20 tix to HP and exchange yarn for a different color Doug – weave straw into gold Tommy – play video games and eat Sarah – talk to friends and avoid doing schoolwork Noah – play with toys that create maximum mess (lego, bionicle, k-nex) Amy – destroy […]

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Pull “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas” out of your movie collection and pop it in the VHS (sorry, it’s not available on DVD). Now, fast forward to the scene in which Harold (Peter Sellers) tries to take a bath. You probably won’t want the children around as you fast forward through scenes of 60s […]

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“I go down to Speaker’s Corner I’m thunderstruck They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong There’s a protest singer singing a protest song – he says They wanna have a war to keep their factories They wanna have a war to keep us […]

subtle changes to ignore

I held Evan in my lap so that I could get my annual (yes, once a year) haircut this evening. I should be in a fabulous mood, but the hair stylist commented on my hair texture and suggested I get my thyroid checked. Since I can’t afford to do anything about it, I think I […]