the Heat

the living is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high your daddy’s rich and your mama’s good looking so hush, little baby don’t you cry Saturday, September 1, 1923, an 8.0 earthquake killed 100,000 people in Japan. Homes shaken into ruins left millions of people homeless. I ran across this bit of history […]

pinball wizard

Three blind mice Three blind mice See how they run See how they run They all ran after the farmer’s wife she cut off their tails with a carving knife did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice My second day post-school. Still in my recovery period. I try […]

start & finish

I witnessed the beginning and end of a nun’s life last week. At the monastery I regularly visit, they had a transfer in, who did a slightly revised Final Vows (as she was already a nun, but with a different order), and the parts of a nun’s funeral, from reception of her cremains to burial […]

Kaleidescope

This summer: my tooth, my friend’s dad, the Supreme Court, presidential immunity, my sister, my aunt, the former president, the president, the new presidential candidate, my lower back, my softening jawline. I’m going to spare you the verbs and the direct and indirect objects. I think you get it. I’ve been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s […]