This is where I was recently
Not bad, eh? I was also here: Note the piece of rainbow.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Back to the Woodstock garden
Nope, I wasn’t at Woodstock—one of the only members of my generation who wasn’t, to hear most them tell it. And I don’t romanticize the 60s and look back on them nostalgically, although many people my age do. I think … Continue reading →
Dental interlude: I’m a little late posting today…
…because I spent part of the morning and early afternoon at the dentist’s. This was my third visit in ten days. I had had an old crown replaced because it was trapping food and causing decay. The permanent crown arrived, … Continue reading →
I read the news today, oh boy
And I think I’m going to ignore it. I may succumb later, though; you never know. But sometimes these days, when I look at news aggregator sites like memeorandum or
Continue reading →Dickinson on the Mass Pike
I stopped to eat my sandwich at a rest stop on the western Massachusetts Turnpike one recent weekend. It was a lovely day and the Berkshires a fine place for my little picnic, although I didn’t have time to leave … Continue reading →
Mama said there’d be days…
…like this: I hadn’t listened to that song in many decades, and so I didn’t recall it was about romance—although, since so many songs are, I would have guessed it. My day today was about something else. After just a … Continue reading →
The internet is sometimes wonderful
Such as yesterday, when I was wearing a silk blouse and eating something with salad dressing on it, and a couple of drops of oil dripped on my blouse. I’d had that blouse for many years and had nursed it … Continue reading →
Erythromelalgia : hotfoot Part III
[Part I can be found here.] [Part II can be found here. You might want to take a look at them to refresh your memory on what on earth I’m talking about.] The years passed but I never found a … Continue reading →
Politics and morality
Every now and then someone in the real (not cyber) world asks me what I do, and I tell them I write. A smaller number of people will then ask me what I write about. Because I don’t like to … Continue reading →
Young Japanese find that sex is scary
Especially when it’s with other people. Well, you know what? It is kinda scary, especially when you’re young and a virgin. But it used to be—long, long ago, when I was a sweet young thing—that there were certain urges that … Continue reading →
Praising Western Civilization
You wouldn’t think it would be controversial to praise Western Civilization. Even among liberals. After all, liberalism itself, and the principles of liberty, protection of the underdog, celebration of diversity, the scientific method, and a host of other things that … Continue reading →
It’s still the Fourth of July!
[BUMPED UP: scroll down for today’s new posts.] Actually, today is the real Fourth of July. The holiday has two names: Independence Day and Fourth of July. The latter designates a specific date for the occasion, which keeps it from … Continue reading →