Oh my gosh. We played 18 holes of golf in that chill yesterday. With two 70-year-old salty women. One of these women is my AA sponsor, but it was simply by coincidence that we were included in this outing. Deb met the other woman in a recent golf tournament, and it was they who set [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Give Me Salty Women
Posted in Body, tagged AA, AK, golf, O'bannon golf club, sunblock on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I Want to Lie in a Breeze in a Field
Posted in Body, tagged air, breeze, sleep on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weather yesterday turned chilly—so chilly that I ran around the house in my sweatpants and a fleece shirt. And once I got all snuggled into bed last night, I realized that Deb had closed all the windows. We have two windows at the head of our bed. I like mine open—at least a crack—in [...]
This Is What You Missed, Mary
Posted in On the Town, tagged Arnold's, Blue Wisp, cars, Findlay Market, Garfield House, Mt. Adams, Ohio Bookstore on September 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Now that I think about it, I believe we’re the only people on our block who have not bought new cars. There are seven houses on this street; there are about 16 or 17 cars in the various garages. Everyone but us has updated at least once. We’ve lived here …what…6 1/2 years? No new [...]
Don’t Make Me Go Out There
Posted in Findlay Market, tagged Blog, Findlay Market on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
2:03 pm
Good bye from Findlay Market. I did not sit down for a single moment, and my feet hurt.
12:40 pm
So, the cutest guy (named Christopher R*ll…he showed me his driver’s license) just had me sign his book: “To Christopher Roll, the father of Rocken R*ll.” He says his 18-year old daughter is named Rocken. He [...]
Coffee-Shop Creeps
Posted in writing, tagged alcoholism, writing, third place, office, coffee shop on September 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Mary suggested I adopt the concept of a mobile office. Laptop at coffee shops. I don’t know about that one, Reader. I do tend to write a good number of emails in coffee shops, but that requires a different level of immersion. The kind of writing I like most to do results in the loss [...]
To Do: 9/24/09
Posted in To Do, tagged bingo, church, coffee, fiction, Findlay Market, Karen Heyl, office, To Do, writing on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To Do:
Call those women who want to buy more Findlay Market books. I swear, I am getting sick of that book thing.
Call Karen Heyl to discuss her sculpting our stone garden bench. She’s been promising to do it for a couple of years and now she’s home from an onsite project in Vail and has [...]
Baggy but Sweet
Posted in The Mundane, tagged clothes, dog, Patagonia on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I discovered a pair of old shorts in the bottom of my drawer. I had two pair of these Patagonia shorts, and I wore the hell out of them. They are now ratty. I tell you, I have had these things for 15 or more years and the elastic hardly holds them up anymore. This [...]
It’s Apple Season!
Posted in Fall, tagged apples, bicycle, Blog, Findlay Market, grass, seasons, Summer on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning, Reader. I changed the header here yesterday, but I’m reconsidering it. I think I may have rushed the season—on a short, post-work, pre-dinner bicycle ride I took with Deb yesterday, I realized that the grass is still quite green and the trees are only beginning to change colors. This week and next should [...]
Reasons to Wag the Tail
Posted in Mariemont Theater, tagged bicycle, Dilly Deli, Mariemont Theater, movies on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On our way out of the movie last night we ran into Jana, the brand-new, hasn’t-even-started-her-new-job-yet Associate Pastor of our church. She’d been in town less than 24 hours. She intentionally slipped quietly into town early so she could poke around a couple of weeks before she starts work in October.
Anyway, she had decided to [...]
I Don’t Suck at Golf
Posted in golf, tagged bicycle, Friends, golf, Maine on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I played a little bit of golf with Deb and Sharon yesterday. Each of them has totally caught the golf bug lately. They are each super competitive and downright devoted to improving their games. There is always a tee time in the works. I think they may play again today. And the weather is perfect, [...]
