Last night, Mr. H came home with a surprise for the kids. He has a Jeep Wrangler that he drives when he’s working in Indiana (he keeps another car here in Arizona), but he brought it out so that we can use it. The kids were pretty excited about it, and so was I since […]
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Women
Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To eat dusty bread.
They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass,
They do not hear
Snow water going down under culverts
Shallow and clear.
They wait, when they should turn to journeys,
They stiffen, when they should bend.
They use against themselves that benevolence
To […]
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What can I say about the Grand Canyon that someone else hasn’t already said? Others before me have exhausted all the superlatives. But I can think ahead a hundred years, or a thousand (assuming that we don’t destroy the planet before either of those dates), and imagine everyone in the future feeling just as wordless. […]
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We have a new toilet, and it’s installed! Thanks for all the good advice since yesterday. I ended up calling my friend Mrs. B’s handyman, and he was able to install the toilet I lugged home from Home Depot.
Okay, so I didn’t lug it home. A nice man at Home Depot put it into […]
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For a while now, I have meant to pass along the link to this website: 18 in ‘08. To quote from the site:
18 in ‘08 started as a film to turn out young voters for the 2008 election. Now 18 in ‘08 is leading an unprecedented peer to peer movement to register, engage, and mobilize […]
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Sing that to the tune of “London Bridge Is Falling Down.” And instead of “my fair lady”, finish it off with “Whoops-a-daisy!”
This little sing-song ditty came to me last night in the middle of Target, on my second trip there to buy a new toilet seat (the first one I bought had broken hardware), after […]
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For a few hours yesterday, I lived the life of a degenerate gambler. And I liked it.
While the kids were in school, my dad and his wife and I went to play poker at the casino where Mr. H and I like to play. I don’t do this often, but it always feels decadent to […]
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We were here today: Old Tucson Studios. The kids had a great time, and everyone was exhausted at the end of the day. It was a fun place, with a lot of movie history and enough activities to keep the kids excited and happy. And I didn’t even know about it until my dad’s wife […]
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My dad and his (fourth, and very nice) wife are here visiting, so my blogging is taking on the nature of clandestine spy work. Well, without all the nifty cars and gadgets. Or the travel to European cities. Or the crafty disguises (although getting into pajamas and pretending to head off to bed, when I […]
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Tonight I watched Gone, Baby, Gone on DVD. I rented it last week, but have put off watching it because I knew it would be heavy and sad. (I read the book, by Dennis Lehane, a while ago and knew exactly what to expect.) A child abducted, a careless and screwed up mother, and lots […]
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