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Tradition
The only Thanksgiving tradition I have is an absence of tradition. I have not eaten Thanksgiving dinner in the same place for two years in a row in at least three decades ( Read more... ) -
It looks a lot like
Hmm. I think I've seen this before. It looks a lot like that golden monkey idol Professor Cornelius has. I always thought that was kind of funny. What? What do I mean? Cornelius. Monkey. Apes. Oh, never mind ( Read more... ) -
Nobody knew
Nobody knew the things about you that I knew. I knew where you were that time when you called and asked if I knew where you were. I said I didn't, but I did. The connection was good enough that I didn't even have to pretend it sounded like a local connection and not like a connection to London ( Read more... ) -
Gone
There's one less turkey in the pen this morning. Started with twelve puffballs. Two just died. Natural causes. They were kind of runty. Then there were ten, which is still plenty. Then, chasing one around the yard when it was too dark to get them all into the pen easily, I got distracted. Not sure if I missed one, or if the one that the ( Read more... ) -
It Rains
There are days you aren't going to win. Everything seems set. You've spend two weeks preparing for a barbecue on what should be the driest day of the year, and at noon, it rains. This day was like that ( Read more... ) -
Rejection
Dear Applicant ( Read more... ) -
Mayhem
"I can scream at you all day, if you want. Do you really want that ( Read more... ) -
Corporate Headquarters
At midnight the only sound in the building was a distant vacuum cleaner. Sara knew there was only one janitor still on site and the constant whine of his equipment assured her he was nowhere near the office where she sat. Nonetheless, she unrolled a small rectangle of tight mesh and hung it over the monitor in front of her before reaching out and ( Read more... ) -
False Nostalgia
And then there was that time in Poland in '52, remember? We walked in from Austria, you impersonating a goatherd. I was disguised as the goat. Old Karol just didn't know what to make of us when we made the offer. "Do as we say and we'll see to it that you make Pope ( Read more... ) -
NaNoBlogMo
I am not doing NaNoWriMo. Odds are very good that I will do it another year. But this year as a small but actual gesture in honor of that massive production of words, I am going to post an average of at least one fragment from my account at http://www.typetrigger.com here for every day of ( Read more... )