Somebody Said…

He lays out a piece of blank paper on the table before him and writes these words with his pen. It was. It will never be again. — Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

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A Murder of Crow

A tale of two deaths . . .

On one of the girls’ last days of school, the bus is late dropping them off.  Not that late, just ten minutes or so, but the bus is never late.  And then the bus is fifteen minutes late, and I am beginning to worry . . …A Murder of Crow

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The View from Vallejo

Many people have asked me why we left Vallejo after so many years of loudly proclaiming how we were going to stick it out and make it work. Our move seemed sudden and unexplained, and some of my friends are still annoyed with me. So today (sans swearing . . . my father-in-law will …The View from Vallejo

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Arachnid roid rage

Our house is surrounded by big tall evergreen trees. When we moved in, several of the neighbors came over to warn us that we shouldn’t leave our cars or our trailer out where the trees could get them. When the wind blows hard, they assured us, we would be sorry that we had left …Arachnid roid rage

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Boxes of NOT-ME

Packing up our Vallejo house meant that I had to make a lot of decisions about what was and wasn’t important. I am usually pretty ruthless about clearing unneeded crap out of the house, but as I worked through the house room by room, I was reminded of a George Carlin routine in which …Boxes of NOT-ME

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A Turn of the Screw

I heard the girls asking Mark to put up a swing in the back yard.  Not a little swing (like the one that has been left for them by the previous tenants), but a really big swing.  We’ll see.

When we re-did the back yard of the house in Vallejo, we cleared a spot …A Turn of the Screw

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