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How to clean out the gutters on your MIL’s rental house when it hasn’t been done for several years and the mulch fills the entire length of the gutter clear up to the top and some of the weeds in … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2006
When my children were little, they called these ‘heavenly rays,’ and for heavenly rays to appear, it meant that there were miracles afoot. I woke up this morning not feeling very well; my head was pounding, and the pain went … Continue reading
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there … Continue reading
I’ve felt better. I think it was in 1994. … Continue reading
Tonight’s featured essay, paragraph one: “Lincoln was a tall man, much in the way that Andre the Giant was also tall, and with the same sideways heart and thick bones that made Andre the Giant look so much like a … Continue reading
I have always loved fairy tales. I do not mean the insipid heavily-edited baby-tales, the Disney-fied versions; I am speaking of the real thing: stories full of blood and guts and red-hot spikes and death and endings-that-are-not-always-happy and the accidental … Continue reading