I don’t think parting is so bloody sweet. As my airport shuttle pulled away on this cold, bright day, I waved at my small, door-framed mother until she was only a teeny pinepoint, as my father once said. My driver was a compact pistol of a woman about my age, with hair dyed as black as an old bluegrass star’s. By the time we pulled up to the airport, we were talking about IUDs. For […]
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My Family & Me
Here are lots of pictures of me with my East Coast family. See captions for details. svgallery=071214delaware
Read more‘Tis the Season
Look at my new Christmas-Kwanzaa-Solstice-Hanukkah decoration, made of motherboards and LEDs. It’s making my season bright. In celebration, I just made a donation to wikimedia. At Kaiser today — my home-away-from-home (so how did I manage to get lost enroute?) — I heard one employee say to another: “Are you going to the Christmas party this year? I mean… the holiday party.”
Read moreTrick or Treat
It’s Halloween at the construction site. Here are M and Dan: Ever good-natured Robert agrees to model my new foam-rubber Elvis wig. (There was a photo of me doing same, but my eyes were closed and my mouth was open, so the picture is history.) But here: I’ll put up a Halloween picture of me disguised as a middle-aged, self-employed ex-hippie holding a foam-rubber Elvis wig. Boo!
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