Tag: root hog or die
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May 10, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
My Mother – Portrait of a Complicated Lady: Part One
My mother was born Susan Patricia Chanler in London, 1921. To understand her, you have to put her in context.
Her father Lewis . . .
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October 12, 2009 10:20 PM EDT --
You are now reading "The Oh-So-Necessary Article."
This article is necessary.
‘Nuff said.
No questions please.
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April 18, 2009 10:17 AM EDT --
God knows I’ve been party to a lot of parties. The Democratic Party, until recently the ‘Chicago Cubs’ of politics. The party line my folks used to have such fun with in downstate New York . . .
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June 20, 2009 10:06 PM EDT --
There are a lot of things I don’t get when it comes to men. Flatulence as a fount of humor comes quickly to mind. Corvettes. Bodacious Ta-Ta’s...
But the biggest cultural . . .
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April 21, 2009 09:35 PM EDT --
Little Boa
So sleek
You do not rustle,
But stand up
To stretch your
Length out
Over the listing edge,
And down,
Slipping
From this brown sack
Where I set you
For a moment’s
Keeping. . . .
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February 11, 2009 08:25 PM EST --
Farm Pond
First stubble, then steps of chimney stone;
The water’s sweet as birch sap, warm as blood.
Cut-paper lilies, frogs sliding among
Plump lily pads that poke from soft brown mud.
Dragonfly, . . .
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April 19, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
Improvisational Theater, Or, Where I Got Off The Boat
When I was 17 I ran away and joined the circus. OK, it was the student body of the University of California, Berkeley, but in 1968 there . . .
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October 28, 2009 06:07 PM EDT --
The Complete Recluse Celebrates Halloween the East Kentucky Way!
I’ve begun my Halloween preparations. First, I’ve spray painted over my name on my mailbox and written Vacant . . .
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January 26, 2009 11:44 PM EST --
Nights Before the Mast
(Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea)
For all the alcoholics and those who ride herd on them...
In the dark of the night when the bottle is done
And the voices are calling aloud . . .
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August 05, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
Ode To Me, (Owed to Me...)
Crazy is lazy Color me in Shock There’s Nothing for it Just knock off my Block.
Rock On !
Nutso is Just So And So goes my Tale I’ll just Beat my Breast . . .
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May 02, 2009 11:34 AM EDT --
My Heaven
Somewhere between the dimensions
There is a meadow of blue grass
Where Barbaro runs free.
Beside him, proud Ruffian
And the stalwart Eight Belles,
Slim foals by their sides,
Canter . . .
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June 13, 2009 11:54 PM EDT --
Pillow Talk
I’m not sleeping alone anymore. Nowadays I share my bed with a big, comfortable, hugable presence. Seven or eight of them actually. They’re my pillows.
Remember . . .
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May 04, 2009 12:30 PM EDT --
Two Weddings and a Restraining Order
It was a marriage made in ... adolescence... I started hanging out with Gary when he was 17 and I was 18. I had returned from Berkeley for the summer . . .
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May 29, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
Reasons
There are many reasons to write a book and even more for reading one, but once the author has set out to inform, excite or entertain, they had darned well better deliver. Tracy Fabre’s . . .
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August 15, 2009 07:37 PM EDT --
I’ve decided I’m going to stop worrying and learn to love the bomb. Or, more precisely, I’m going to stop arguing and start making money.
So here, for your approval, is my new . . .
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February 07, 2009 03:15 PM EST --
Am I but a string?
A reductionist's plaything?
No, I'm a frayed knot!
(Old jokes are the best jokes...)
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November 05, 2009 04:15 PM EST --
Eighteen people in Kentucky are now confirmed dead from H1N1. This has prompted Louisville to hold mass vaccinations for members of high risk groups. Other clinics are to be held in Lexington . . .
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April 27, 2009 07:10 PM EDT --
I'm a better gardener than a photographer, but here is my quince tree, blossoming for the first time in it's 10-year life. I planted it because a story I used to read to my son mentioned . . .
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May 23, 2009 09:22 PM EDT --
It is the blue hour When deer slide from the shadows And owls take wing.
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June 08, 2009 11:29 PM EDT --
I've got so many pieces up that I can't find my way through them. Here's a selection of my favorites:
How to Be a Mental Patient: Part One: Getting There (Humor - an insider's view of . . .
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