If you haven’t heard the Halloween documentary I produced with an infant Molly draped over my arm, here’s another opportunity. I just checked Soundprint’s Web site. They were the ones who originally aired the program twenty years ago. Lo and behold, they’ve currently got it featured on their home page. And here’s something interesting: in the credits for my Valentine’s Day program, it says: “With special thanks to Jay Allison.” Hmmm. As far as I […]
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Mixed Emotions
Mom (now officially called “Small”) is so organized, she frightens me. She alphabetizes her spices. She writes down everything she’s cooking for dinner each night, along with the time it goes into the oven and at what temperature, and the time it gets whisked out. Opening the icebox door, she showed me a casserole (“That goes in at 5:45″), a cookie sheet of potato boats, and a tray of shrimp arranged like flower petals around […]
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You know how you wake up with a phrase running through your mind for no apparent reason? Stuck in my preconscious brain today was the following: “It’s no silver bullet!” It got me to wondering: what is a silver bullet? If you find one, what do you do with it? Hold it in your hand? Find a werewolf? Keep it in your pocket till you find a werewolf? Shoot yourself? I forgot to put Christmas […]
Read moreAll The Rest Have Thirty-One
Nothing to say. Ho ho ho. Heh heh. Here are pictures. Mom’s tree, for example: Here’s Mom wearing two presents: a spider from me, and meerkats from Molly: Eleni got very emotional with gratitude when she received a generous check from her grandmother, and was consoled by said grandmother and her sister: Ma’s fella, Ed, dropped by for a brief visit: After I received abundant bounty from my daughters and my mother, we did regular […]
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