2012-12-19 01:25
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Random literary musing about books and absurdities of life with a sprinkling of wisdom.
2012-09-22 00:43
For Tammy- who likes owls- on her birthdayI dream sometimes that I'm a great barn owl, trailing the darkness of a forest, always the same darkness and the same forest.There's a little grey… Read More
2012-09-07 22:52
If I were to compile a list of things that my mother would never be heard to say, I'm sure that at the top of the list would be this one:"You're playing Sweet Child O' Mine far too loud for… Read More
2012-08-16 00:57
Spouse has been teaching me to drive, of late, and I've been trying to learn. In doing so, I recalled, from days of yore, an old battered, blue toy car that belonged to my cousin- and we of… Read More
2012-08-05 15:54
In a cupboard, on a hook,It's there, if you will take a lookThrough the gloom and cobwebs thereIf you squint and if you stareIf you wrinkle up your noseand close one eye and curl your toesit… Read More
2012-08-04 00:37
There's an old place where people go, to meet and have a little bite to eat.Actually, it's not been around as long as all that, but the local Senior Center is a veritable hive of activity so… Read More
2012-07-27 02:18
have you booked ithave you booked itthe daughter, she inquiredwe've looked at endless ticketsand now I'm awfully tiredI'm a-coming I'm a-comingthe mother she repliedI'm chartered on an air-b… Read More
2012-07-18 23:22
One morning in recent weeks, my spoon collided with the bottom of the bowl, dashing against the base with a dreadful clatter. My breakfast was dwindling, I'd nearly eaten the lot, and sudden… Read More
2012-07-10 00:58
The local Senior Center was hosting its sixth anniversary party recently, and close to eighty people were expected to attend and dine at the event.I donned apron, and a fabulous hair net, an… Read More
2012-06-14 00:39
Some weeks ago I spent an entire morning on my knees sorting out the garden. Specifically, I worked at the patch of ground directly below our kitchen window. It's filled with hundreds of sma… Read More
2012-05-31 23:53
May twentieth. A solar eclipse was on the schedule, the like of which hadn't been seen in nearly twenty years and wouldn't be again for another fifty-nine.Sort of a landmark moment, then.We… Read More
2012-05-22 23:58
In my place of work, I serve food.Right around the time that a homeless man began to turn up for lunch, and for afternoon and evening activities, items began to disappear from the fridge. Ju… Read More
2012-05-16 21:28
Mater had great plans for her little dog, Dandy, along the lines of sports stardom, but the dog perhaps has ambitions of his own.The small fellow sniffed around one of the bookshelves while… Read More
2012-05-16 21:17
Mater bought a football for her little dog, Dandy. By all accounts, he loves the thing: in the kitchen and all about the house he rolls on it, barks at it, kicks and chases and hides and lic… Read More
2012-05-09 00:54
Mater was engrossed in a movie of some sort when I telephoned."I can't think of the name of what I'm watching, but you know the movie," she said to me. "It's got that McCain fella in it."My… Read More
2012-04-27 23:58
Joyce, on hearing that I hail from Ireland, said she had many, many moons ago stumbled upon a village in the south of my homeland. Enid, it was called.I assured her I hadn't heard of it; she… Read More
2012-04-24 23:14
I was on the phone to Mater when I silently and deftly peeled two small mandarin oranges and subtly slid a juicy segment into my mouth. Not, apparently, quite as clever and underhand as I'd… Read More
2012-04-06 00:43
In recent days I sent an elderly relative a photograph, one of Spouse and I on a recent trip to Ireland.In the picture, we're standing where the earth ends, otherwise known as the edge of… Read More
2012-03-23 00:08
Our neighbours are very understanding.They know that Spouse and myself are, to put it mildly, a little bit different.The people across the road offered Spouse the use of their power lawnmowe… Read More
2012-03-13 21:01
Our bird feeder is an improvised one: a flour sieve dangles from a string knotted around a hook on the back lip of the house, and we keep that spilling over with seeds of all kinds.The small… Read More
2012-03-10 01:59
In the little village in Ireland I grew up in, there's a small but colourful choir that sings its collective heart out in the local church.They get together for all sorts of celebrations and… Read More
2012-03-01 18:31
Until last year, shortly after we'd moved into our house, I wasn't aware that bluejays could stare: stare at you, through you or through the glass pane of a front door, waiting intently and… Read More
2012-02-28 00:42
Quite some time ago Spouse and I dined at the house of a friend. The friend had invited along another companion, an ancient lady we'd not met before.The entire evening brimmed with delicious… Read More
2012-02-13 23:23
There we were at the airport in Dublin, Spouse and I, ready to depart Ireland again. Mater and Sibling K had accompanied us to the last point, and the minute of farewell had descended upon u… Read More
2012-01-25 00:17
Spouse and I had come to our last day in Ireland.It was after midnight and our flight was scheduled for early morning. Most inconveniently, it struck me all of a sudden that I needed a postc… Read More
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