Category Archives: REALITY

Does this mean, he asks me, that you won’t be going to night meetings anymore? I don’t know, I say, curious as to his sudden question.  Why? Just wondering, he answers. He has taken this marriage business and togetherness a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I posted something a few days back to the effect that the purpose of argument is to either convince your opponent of your stand or to understand and accept his.  Well, I don’t really believe that since there are other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All of Them:  You take two-thirds of the expenses off the price of the house. Me:  No, you take the total expenses off. All of Them:  No, because then the two of you are paying her share.  Listen, we’ve handled … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It just dawned on me in watching CSI: Miami:  Horatio is the only one of the CSI groups (NYC, Las Vegas, Miami) who never has to perform any of the lab tests and rarely if ever goes into the autopsy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I would love to know the statistics that might give me a clue as to why the last four tablets of any vitamin mixed in with the new bottle remain till the very end of that new bottle as well. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ooh-ooh-ooh!  Go check out 2 Blowhards post on The Stones in the 70s, complete with videos.  Mick Jagger was always one homely SOB but "Dead Flowers" was one of my favorites and the other is one I don’t think I’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dear Lord, I hate fast fluttering things.  Butterflies that fly too close, grasshoppers and frogs that jump nearer rather than away, voles that zip round the floor beneath my stool where I am perched at work. Last Monday it was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love the five o’clock morning time.  Color only within touch, the horizon a ragged line of black leaves waving gently in a higher wind against a milky blue empty sky.  A bowl of morning curves away from me in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Pouring rain and sunshine, pouring rain.  I am so one with the New England weather it is difficult to separate our moods and say which drives the other.  Conflict reigns within the soul of each. Continue reading →

Working with a long-time customer, fussy with her so carefully stitched embroidery.  We catch up on what’s happened in the time since she’s been here; yes, Jim is working now; no, I graduated school last May. Yes, he’s working back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday was a setup for failure; good friend unable to make it to lunch and a wary spouse eyeing the shrimp I served for dinner instead.  Oh, you made them for her… More money than books at the library sale, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just noticed this post was empty on site.  I don’t have a clue what I’d written here as a post and maybe deleted, maybe just lost, or maybe never wrote it at all.  By the title, it appears that it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are tigers in the woods behind my house.  They tell me no, but I don’t believe it because they say there are bears but I have never seen one there so a tiger or a lion never seen is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The ethics of lawyers, the loyalty of friends, the honesty of family, all coming into question yet who am I to judge?  Understanding the image of right is not same for all, but rather perception and viewpoint and personal understanding … Continue reading → Continue reading →