Everyone likes a mystery right? Here is a small one. My parents have this tiny handmade book that has come down through our family. It sits in a silver box in their lounge room...pretty much unexamined over the years. It has some water damage, and the binding glue has degraded through the spine. Some of … Continue reading The book.
The NOW page.
I am not really very active on social media at the moment. So apologies to anyone who has left a message or comment there for me.Sure, I post links to stuff I have written, but I'm really not consuming anything that Facebook or Twitter or Instagram has to offer.I really do feel it is time … Continue reading The NOW page.
Who shot JKF? Spoiler alert.
If, like me, you are a little prone to oil your jaded, skeptical and perhaps just a little too gullible opinions on the workings of big government with a nice juicy conspiracy theory or two, I think you will really enjoy this article by Jamie Palmer in the online magazine Quillette. In My misspent Years … Continue reading Who shot JKF? Spoiler alert.
Night Storm.
Awake. For a while now. ... Counting out callipers between the PUNCH-LIGHT ... that chalks the bedroom in a Blitzlicht flash. and and and BOOM —- shaking the earth. rolling out thickly to the north. ... Then it comes. leeward slanting rain stings on windows rattles in gutters I can feel the thickness of it. … Continue reading Night Storm.
Dog Nap.
My dog lay silver In the silver sun Belly up in absent trust. ... His lupine paws in sympathy with dreams of chase or being chased.
The Straight Dope.
I am about to suggest you go visit a clunky, visually sucky, probably unattended website way over in a less traveled region of the internet. Be warned, you may be gone for some time. Back in the mid 1980's at the very time I was supposed to be studying for my nurses registration, a friend … Continue reading The Straight Dope.
