This “knife-skills lesson” is going to crack me up. I’m on the committee at our church responsible for fun stuff. You know, like the picnic, the greens workshop, the dinner groups…if it involves cookies or food or a large group, we probably organized it. I like the folks on my committee. This morning we’re meeting [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Paring Knives Are for Sissies
Posted in Food, tagged Case knives, church, Echo, knives, Wustoff on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Keep Your Interpretation Away from My Music
Posted in Complaints, tagged music, music videos, technology on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s already been that kind of a morning. Things are slow to load on this computer right now…probably because the cold and ice have seeped out into the universe and slowed all of creation down. So I’ve waited interminably long to get to this point. It’s amazing that we ever connected here today.
And I wanted [...]
A Little Creativity, a Lot of Maintenance
Posted in Domestic, tagged AA, energy, Family, furnace, home, maintenance on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our gas bills have just about buried us since we moved into this old house. We’ve done everything we know to do within our budget to get energy efficient, but still…very high bills in the winter. Last week, the motor on one of our furnaces blew up, and the furnace guy who came to fix [...]
Yes. Thanks for Asking Me
Posted in writing, tagged Kent State University Press, poetry, Salt, Wick Poetry Center, writing on January 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The first word out of my mouth is usually “no.” Do you want to do this? No. Do you want to go there? No.
Yesterday afternoon I received a phone call from the people at the Wick Poetry Center inviting me to an event at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. These are the folks who [...]
Post before Shoveling Snow
Posted in Domestic, tagged snow, Tree Man, yellow on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You think he looks scary? I think of him as playful…as if I’ve caught him mimicking some human. I think of Tree Man and me sort of smiling together at my witnessing his silly side. (For those of you who are dragging a bit this morning, I refer to Tree Man of the previous post.) [...]
Speaking of Bodies
Posted in Art, tagged Art, Arthur Secunda, Body, hot flashes, Karen Heyl, scar, The Frame Messiah, Tree Man on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since they took out my ovaries, hot flashes are happening in my feet. It started the day following surgery…my feet turned bright red. I watched them radiate at the foot of my hospital bed. And though we’ve been tweaking the hormone-replacement therapy, I’m still having these waves at night. Often this heating up like a [...]
Where the Key Is Hidden
Posted in Family, tagged AA, Al-Anon, alcoholism, bicycle, coyotes, mental illness, psychiatric emergency room on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our doors are temporarily locked. If you’re coming to visit, let me know, and I’ll tell you where the key is hidden.
Yesterday, as happens every now and then, Deb’s brother threatened to kill us. As you may already know, he struggles with mental illness and alcoholism…it’s hard for mentally ill people to get sober, but [...]
Post on the Morning Following a Late Dinner
Posted in Poetry/Literature, tagged Cincinnati Review, poetry, readings on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I did none of the things I thought I would do yesterday. Some days are like that.
I did, however, read Kimbrell’s wonderful poem to a crowd of between 75 and 100 people. You can tell when they’re with you, and they were with me. It’s a good poem, and I read it really well, I [...]
Itching for 48 Degrees
Posted in Scooter, tagged bicycle, poetry, Scooter, weather on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I left work yesterday, the temperature was 38 degrees. I took my coat off. When I walked Murphy at the dog-walking place, I wore a sweater and a scarf but no coat and no gloves. Then, I fired up both scooters and, in order to get their parts moving and their lines cleared out, [...]
The Poet Who Shot Three Holes in the Heart
Posted in Poetry/Literature, tagged C.D. Wright, Cincinnati Review, JeanRo Bistro, poetry, Salt on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve agreed to read at a public event tomorrow night. Not my own poetry, but someone else’s. The Cincinnati Review, the literary magazine for which I was eventually the Associate Editor, is celebrating it’s 5th year with a big thing, and those of us closely connected to it are reading some of our favorite work [...]
