You can be certain that a post is upcoming re. my reading Joseph and His Brothers. I finished the book itself Some Time Ago, and wrote a post about it that I allowed to sit on this site for about eight hours, after which I pulled it because it was Not Good. I am in […]
Read moreYou know, I like to refrain, for the most part, from this kind of discourse because, really, it makes me tired. And I have So Many Other Things to think about. Honestly, I do. But I am Sick Unto Death of this Carolina-Duke rivalry, and this is not because “my” team (that’s what one is […]
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“It will be good to feel the road,” Dora wrote in a letter to me, years ago now, of her pending trip from her parents’ home in Grove City, PA to Chicago. I knew what she meant when she wrote that. It can be good, that road time. Time for anonymity, except for the other […]
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He didn’t want to go to school from the beginning. Even when I told him, back in January, that I had been offered the job– a month before I even signed the contract– he cried. Everett wanted Nothing To Do with going to school. It wasn’t so much the school thing, in and of itself. […]
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Just before Thanksgiving, after a Saturday morning at the soccer field, we decided to spend an hour or two in Duke Gardens. It was a beautiful day. We found some pitcher plants and duly studied them, hoping to spot drowned insects in the digestive fluids at the bottom of the pitcher. We had studied carnivorous […]
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Bill and I went out for the evening, and Emma Grace convinced the baby-sitter that 1) she sleeps sitting up and 2) she sleeps with the light on. Both of these things are Lies. This is how we found her when we got home. When Uncle Ray visited for Thanksgiving, Bill went to pick him […]
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