I'm not a shopper. I know people who go shopping for fun or relaxation but that's never been me. Most purchases, excepting food, can take me months, and then I don't realize how long I've had something. I realized once I was calling something my "new" jacket when it was already over ten years old.... Continue Reading →
Broken Boomerang
Ever tried testing if a stick or something would work as a boomerang and then...it doesn't? You're just throwing some half bent piece of wood out into the wild and then having to go pick it up again, or just leaving it there. This is kind of like my super hero persona when I was... Continue Reading →
Everyone Wanted a Farfisa
"'Cause I can see the future, and it's a place about seventy miles east of here, where it's lighter." (lyrics from Laurie Anderson's "Let x = x") I keep thinking that my body's changes are temporary, and that I'll be reset at some point and my articulations will go back to being supple again. Not... Continue Reading →
Slow Cow
I took Foro on a jaunt last weekend to see some friends, perching him in one of the little side windows of my Honda Jazz. We watched the cows out in the pastures as we drove through small villages and towns where, it seems, there's a lot of cheese being made. I often don't enjoy... Continue Reading →