Tag Archives: Murphy

~:: Rest of the Springy Thing ::~

We have always kept a line between the candy eggs on Saturday and maybe real eggs on Sunday, though why dyed eggs, real or not, should count as appropriate on such a deeply significant holy day, I’m not sure I … Continue reading

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~:: My Very Large House ::~

I have written about this before, the strange and expanding nature of my very large house. It starts with a cluster of not very large rooms.  Like these two, with a boy standing on the seam between them. And like … Continue reading

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~:: What Happened on Monday ::~

First, may I say that I am growing to hate capchas of any kind with a deep and abiding hatred?  Well, I am.  And the darned things are getting longer. Isn’t there another way? Counter-bots that follow the dang spammers … Continue reading

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~:: Spookiness ::~

I have now answered all comments, visited many blogs, answered email.  If I have forgotten you, yell.  I feel like a victorian lady, just rising from her writing desk in front of the receiving room window – except without the … Continue reading

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~:: Rewind again: Not our Wedding ::~

I will have you know that I am a precursor – a harbinger of our new, cool global modern social order.  I remember very clearly: when I was an adolescent and I realized that my mother had a driver’s license … Continue reading

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~:: The Wedding ::~

My mother, who was a wonderful woman and (perhaps I should say, “thus”) different than I am in many ways, faithfully wrote small accounts of the family’s activities to her mother in law every week. One day, my grandmother wrote back to … Continue reading

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~:: More Mouse ::~

First thing to remember: I am using the POINT AND SHOOT.  These first shots are blurry, not because of the camera, but because I was actually trying to dance and shoot at the same time.  Second thing to remember: I … Continue reading

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~:: We Visit the Mouse ::~

Today, in the 97 degree weather, after a hard day’s tractor work, I came home drooping.  I wanted lime sherbet.  In anticipation of such a moment, I had gone to the store and bought some with my own money.  Thus, … Continue reading

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~:: Santa Fe: Pt. Whatever ::~

Once upon a time, I learned that writing and living don’t go easily together.  And so it has been the since the first week of July.  I have answered no comments – which grieves me – and hardly been able … Continue reading

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~:: Old horses and the Great Journey ::~

Okay.  Cue up “The Circle of Life,” or maybe “Sunrise, Sunset,” and hand me a box Puffs. I first met Jedda one very cold January day.  Geneva had taken me to see the little sorrel mare, freshly back at the … Continue reading

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