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Feeling like I’m becoming invisible
I think it’s a natural thing that as you age, you start feeling like you’re no longer “at the pulse of it all” like Arthur Kane, as Robyn Hitchcock sings in N.Y. Doll. This weekend, somehow, I felt worse than that – like I’m becoming invisible. Probably much of my malaise is related to the … [Read more…]
Memorial Day 2017
Even the kitty cat slept in on Memorial Day. So here’s the plan. We had a nice little driveway party on Sunday, and we finally lucked out with the weather. I only took a pic of my beer; Megan got the best shot of one of the neighbor kids running down the driveway to the … [Read more…]
A “normal” work week, waiting for spring
It’s been cold and grey with temps in the 40s and 50s all week. I’ve been saying spring is arriving at a stately pace this year. The blossoming trees and tulips are done, and we’re on to Irises and Lilacs. And lots of wet foliage. And barn swallows nesting in the eaves at Helen C. … [Read more…]
My Fair Lady
I’m pretty sure the movie version with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza, and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, was my father’s birthday movie in December of 1964. We had a family tradition (that I mostly upheld with my kids) that after the age of 7, no more big birthday parties with lots of little kids – … [Read more…]
Chicago to DC and back again
Or, between two breakfasts. Here’s the first one: On Tuesday morning I got up at Omigod (4:45am) and drove to the train with Mark. We were in Chicago at quarter to 9:00 and my flight wasn’t until 12:10, so I went looking for breakfast and ended up at Corner Bakery. After breakfast, I took the … [Read more…]
In our nation’s capital
But too tired to write about it now – more tomorrow. Here’s a view of the Capitol Building, from the steps of the Library of Congress. I love the purple color of those lamps.
Pop Music
So the radio in my new car is not as good as the one in the old one was. I can’t listen to public radio all the way to the train station in Harvard IL. It fades out around Janesville. For a little while I tried a country station – one Sunday night last December … [Read more…]
A spring Sunday (and Saturday)
Sunday didn’t start off so great. I stepped in hair ball cat puke first thing, heading for the thermastat to see how cold it was, and if I should turn the heat back on. (It was 65° in the house, 35° outside, so heat did go back on, and it’s running now Monday morning while … [Read more…]
Rainy Sunday morning
All the stuff I did do this weekend … and all the stuff I didn’t do. And, well not even all, because, of course, there’s stuff I didn’t even know about that I didn’t do. It was one of those weekends with about a million things going on. Friday I went to the Rousers geezer … [Read more…]