Category: Friends

Sociable undertakings

On the Road Again

I’ve been looking around the Internet for cool stuff for my U.S. Society & Culture class. Thinking of Teejie, I downloaded this wonderful photo: And thinking of Banana, I grabbed this beauty, an old one of Gee’s Bend: Let’s come back to the present, a skill I lack, spending most of my time on either side of now. Like last night. I went to bed at a ridiculously early hour, lacking desire to be awake. […]

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The Good

Per my proclamation in my prior post, I … Ack. Too many “P’s.” What I mean is: as I said in my last blog entry, I will be full of nothing but cheer here. This is why I will tell you of the tradition (held for some 18 days now) that I have with my children. Yes, Molly: it was your idea… to send an e-mail to one another about something good about each day. […]

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Truck on the Highway

My dear TJ indulged my every whim, as usual. I wanted to write haikus. 5, 7, 5. Here’s TJ’s: Delicate seed pods Horny stalks, icy root gobs. Oh, my achin’ back. And here’s what came trippin’ off my less poetic fingers: Truck on the highway Who’s that dumb chick in the road? We all have to die.

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The Wonderful Story of Me*

*Source: TJ Since I hit the road last week, every night I’ve been waking up confused in the dark: Where am I? Who am I? Whose bed is this? Why am I not in my own bed? Where’s the bathroom? Over the past days I’ve been amazed at how nasty and grumpy people have been. I’ve been despairing at the toxicity of humanity. The airport was a sea of hisses and snarls and sneers and […]

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