I woke around dawn to the sound of heavy downpouring rain. After it kept up for a while, I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed,…
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I woke around dawn to the sound of heavy downpouring rain. After it kept up for a while, I reluctantly dragged myself out of bed,…
For the last week Xy and Persephone have been out in the proverbial boonies, hanging with some friends at a remote cabin way out in…
reflections (A) by camil tulcan We had overlapping houseguests last weekend. My mother-in-law was still here, and we were also playing host to a former…
Next to Nothingness by Diane Yuri/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 It seems in our culture we are afraid of silence and emptiness. We fill our…
It’s shaping up as something of a tradition in its own right. My birthday has an overt tendency to suck. A quick recap may be…
Michael gave me a lift early Sunday morning to pick up the car from where Xy had abandoned it on Airline Highway the night before.…
I got the key to our new house this morning. It’s starting to seem like reality. My mother-in-law was down here for a week. It…
Oops. I thought we had a couple more weeks before we closed on the houses we are buying and selling. But when exchanging text messages…
Avant-garde music has a bad rap for being screeching and unpleasant. Here’s a mix that proves otherwise. Some of it is still weird, thankfully. And…
Our inspection period is just about over. We’ve found a number of deficiencies which we are asking the seller to correct: There are structural issues…
It’s funny how after you make an offer on a house you start noticing the flaws. We are in the inspection phase now, a fourteen…
Lots of stuff going on lately, and so little time to write. The days slip away uncounted. I can’t stand that. So here are some…
Posting’s been a little thin here lately because we were on a two-week vacation, visiting friends and family in Indiana and Tennessee. But I’m back…
I found an old letter from our mortgage company, unopened, buried under some junk mail. Inside I was surprised to discover a check, a refund…
I took a vacation last week. Nope, didn’t leave the Greater New Orleans area. I’m afraid this was another vacation in the head, and as…
I’m trying to scrounge up the necessary accouterments for our Mardi Gras costumes. Laurel branches: Everyone envisions classical gods and goddesses wearing a wreath of…
Here’s a new twist on an old theme. Because of our intermittent no-crank no-start problem, Xy has taken to going out early on cold mornings…
I was tagged with one of those viral memes that I recall were ricocheting around the blogosphere a few years back. But this one happened…
Somehow last week got away from me, and I failed to record some happenings here. For example, on Thursday morning the car refused to start…