In Memoriam When Dad died, I don’t think I truly realized how long “forever” is. Last week, in an email to a childhood friend, I wrote that almost 20 years later I find myself getting a bit angry that he’s still dead. I wasn’t being glib. There’s actually a sliver of me that doesn’t quite get how his death can be so permanent. I want to look into his big ole cow-eyes and admonish him: […]
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Happy Birthday to Me
There are no words for the tragedy in Texas last week. The pain of it hits physically; I feel sick to my stomach as well as sick at heart, not only that lives were cut so very short but that the only action Republican politicians take is to offer the usual “thoughts and prayers.” This country’s spiral is terrifying. When Eleni mentioned that these murders make her reluctant to send her kids to school, I—ever […]
Read moreDeath, Unemployment and a Broken Blog
First, the blog: today I noticed that all internal links are broken. If you try to go from one post to the next, you get nothing but an error. If you try to search by clicking on a calendar date, there’s that error again. All the automatically inserted links in the blog are busted, and I don’t know what to do. The site is essentially useless and inaccessible. So why am I bothering to write […]
Read moreRetirement
I think I’m going to retire wormlips.com, and least for now. I’m boring myself. That wasn’t a problem when I was the only one reading this, but now that my readership has climbed into the low double-digits, it’s no longer All About Me. Writing a blog has been many good things for me. Most of all, it’s kept me alert. It’s easy to take for granted the non-events of day-to-day life. But when you decide […]
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