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Monthly Archives: May 2010
May 26th: Found it in my sleep
Finding a M2B:) moment was impossibly tough today because we put my mother in the hospital. Watching your mom crying and trembling with pain, with none of her meds coming close to bringing relief, is agonizing. Everyone who’s known the helpless feeling of being unable to comfort a loved one in great pain knows exactly [...]
May 24th: A M2B:) Mission of service
How perfect: The last episode of 24 airs on the 24th of May. I was completely prepared for Jack Bauer to die tonight. With the life he’s lived, I figured the odds were against him making it….past season 3. But the miracle of television fiction and suckers like me who just cheer the impossible [...]
May 23rd: Brats re-defined
Okay, okay. My best happiest moment today was discovering the hysterical gifts bestowed through misunderstanding. Yesterday’s post about our picnic on the back porch with the title BRATS ON THE DECK was cause for some confusion…except for my German friend who knew INSTANTLY what I was referring to…Brats as in bratwurst vs. Brats as in [...]
May 22nd: Brats on the deck
Full house and this afternoon, just as the sun was setting, we had brats out on the deck. Not as warm as it should be this late in May, but it was gorgeous. Scott and Jenn are here for the weekend. So are the Steins (including a Bucky proudly wearing big-boy underpants and Sadie [...]
May 21st: Rearranging my position on checks
Writing checks has never been a happy time for me. Someone told me once that for many men, money is far more valuable than anything they could ever buy with it. Well I’m not that extreme, but a part of me winces whenever I’m writing a check and so today I thought I’d make a [...]
May 20th: A poem about a gift
Although Ringo, George and John won’t be there, I WILL be singing Ooooo with Paul McCartney, and twenty-five thousand screaming fans, on my daughter’s birthday, July 13th. This morning after fumbling so slowly on my computer that I helplessly watched four sets of “best available” tickets go back into the American Express pre-sale pool I [...]
May 19th: Excellence vs. Superiority
Today I was reminded of an interview I heard on the radio several months ago. A theologian on a pbs program was asked about his approach to sharing his faith with the world. I’m paraphrasing here, but what I got out of what he said was this: He chose to proclaim the excellence of his [...]
May 18th: The scribble
Somewhere between being asleep and waking up I got a glimpse of a song I’ve been wanting to write for a couple of weeks now. I got up, uncharacteristically early and jotted down everything I could remember. Fell back to sleep and when I was fully conscious I took a look at what I’d scribbled [...]
May 27th: Or maybe it’s the 26th in overtime