Is there picture showing more tenacity than that of a dog with a bone? Our Irish terrier pup, with wolf teeth and paws that remind me of Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are monsters, can take a ten inch bone and reduce it to nothingness in less than one day…when she wants to. And yes,…
Category: Musing
Awesome
Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. —Winston Churchill There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way…
The Use/Abuse of Numbers
Coming up on our busy calendar is the twenty-fifth anniversary of our move here, to this town, in this house. I don’t think this is worthy of a celebration, more worthy of acknowledgement, long time spent in a place, the possibility of roots. But it did make me think about numbers–more as words than as…
A KEEPER
I have stuff. I am a keeper of stuff. I buy plastic boxes because cardboard just doesn’t do it. For me it is memory, saving memories. I have been pretty good at keeping mostly, mostly carrying a lot of weight, stuff that is important to my life and to our life. When we moved from…