Category Archives: REALITY

As I slide my tongue along teeth freshly scraped and polished by a professional, I wonder if the UPS man knows that I am thinking of french kisses and the summer scent of roses. Continue reading →

Bumper crop of grapes this year, and I’ve allowed them full access to the peach trees which are due to be cut down since they’re way out of hand and that’s my fault for not tending them properly the last … Continue reading →

(UPDATED: Now I feel even worse. It was unbelievably delicious. I actually ended up with enough for two.  I ate it all.) I am a bad person. El esposo is at a retirement dinner.  I am sauteing shrimp and escargot … Continue reading → Continue reading →

On this, his last day of work, I salute Bill Gates for combining his creative self with his business acumen to have developed an empire. Some of us just ain’t got it though.  I just let two customers walk out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hoping that my dear friend Nancy stopping by tomorrow will have time for lunch, I’m planning on stirfry with jumbo shrimp and shitake mushrooms since it’s quick and easy. Love this start to the season of fresh vegies and grillwork.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m still dreaming in the afterglow of hypertextual commingling and will return to the down-to-earth (?) world of printed fiction sometime today. Between William Gay and Geoff Chaucer (he’s not around to argue the familiarity) I’ve got some good reading … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With the news of the loss of a revolutionary comedian: George Carlin, dead at age 71. I’ve admired him since the days he was allowed to safely perform on the Ed Sullivan show. Continue reading →

Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. Yes, I was really interested in the learning sessions, great discussions, and meeting some familiar names at the Hypertext 2008 conference, but the food was a big part of it for me too.  Can’t come … Continue reading →

Not just Pittsburgh I would think, but all big bumbling cities with their underlying humming sound of life.  Pigeons teaching people in their fly formations like a United Nations flag. Every color grey, white spots under bellies or hidden within … Continue reading → Continue reading →

About forty pairs of jeans in the closet and only three of them can be coaxed into comfortably fitting the new, larger version of me. I think I’ll go back to smoking. (Note: No, I’m not rich. These jeans are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Enjoy and relax, teach someone to grill a steak for you as good as the ones you can make.  May your day be a fun one and may life reward you with respect and love from your kids. Continue reading →

Some things need to grow up where they’ve been planted.  Some plants, like people, just don’t like being moved. Yet at their own slow pace they sprout a half a foot away from roots that have wandered in the soil … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tried to take advantage of the early morning pre-heat daylight but ended up going through till now. Grubby like you can’t believe; a sweatball.  Dare I step upon the scale and hope? Likely I have poison ivy because all it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Something funny’s going on here.  I can’t prove it, and I can’t seem to catch anyone in the act, but sometimes in the last couple of years someone’s trading places with me. First it was the hair; stealing some of … Continue reading → Continue reading →