Two—count ‘em, TWO—days in a row I’ve heard In the Sweet By and By, and twice I’ve had to fight back tears. Well, only one did I actually fight them because the first time was Friday at the Folklife Festival (sung by some wonderful Irish singers) and the second was here in my own home [...]
Why didn’t I go see A Prairie Home Companion when it was in the theater? Oh, I know. Because I would have sung along with just about all the songs and laughed a little too loud and cried most obnoxiously. What a terrific movie. I’ve listened to the radio program for as long as I [...]
Before I go on a trip (this time to the mountains for a week or so) I have to clean and organize the whole apartment. The last thing I want to do is come home to dirty clothes, dust (although that is a daily battle around here), general clutter, and dirty dishes. I think it [...]
Thanks, amigo. P.S. What’s with all the squirrels?
To be Mailed Friday, June 29, no thanks to the postal elves Grumpy, Stupid, and Litigious, who were alternately hateful, pedantic and inconveniently invisible. Apparently, one is exasperated by humanity1, one cannot life anything that weighs more that 8 ounces, and one doesn’t want to do any transactions at all, at least not during office [...]
I generally despise talking about politics because it causes people to go straight to their veins-bulging, hyperbolic, shrill worst, but I do have something to say about the Ann Coulter/Elizabeth Edwards confrontation, and it is this: It was unfortunate for Ann Coulter to try to spin this as Elizabeth Edwards asking her to stop talking [...]
The other night, Figaro was sprawled out sound asleep on the arm of the sofa basking in the warm lamplight when he suddenly fell off. It took him a few seconds to wake up and discover that he was now lying on his side wedged between the sofa arm and my hip, and when he [...]