Only a year later, the memory clicks backward, ratchets clackety clack, and the life that used to be isn't. A story to follow. ~m

you are not forgotten!

a lot of good history wrapped in some of these posts. & somewhere i have a poetry notebook under another livejournal ID.

~mikey

YAY! Mom! that Barbeau boy singer is back in town from Ox/Cambridge just in time for the Xmas eve trad gig & a 12/11 headline gig ( Read more... )

Lost the first of my cousins yesterday ( Read more... )

My mother said I didn't get anything done yesterday because she has a knack for coming around when I am relaxing with Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. And to me, too, it seemed like I didn't get anything done yesterday--but not so ( Read more... )

Participating in the care of a dementia/alzheimers patient is teaching me way more than I ever wanted to know about the workings of the fading (but amazingly creative and defensive) human mind ( Read more... )

So Mr. Bob Stanley is the new Poet Laureate of Sacramento.

Let's hear for the safe choice. No Kerouac-ian mad ones for us. I have no feeling one way or the other about it except congratulations to Bob. Personally, I would turn the thing down if drafted.

Also congratulations to Julia for doing a great job while holding the post. ~m

For our anniversary, E & I drove from Sacramento to Vallejo, enjoyed Six Flags for the afternoon, then E drove us to Bodega Bay. Already dinner time, we felt we needed a room first ( Read more... )

Lots of life has been in the good column lately. But no one wants to hear about the niceties of boredom & prosperity in the face of monster recession--which--come to think of it--everyone should be writing about for the historical value of having coped (?) with a halving of the economy ( Read more... )

MAY 2009 EVENTS ( Read more... )