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I’m crying and lots of others are, too, for New Orleans.
I can’t stop thinking of Tim Henderson’s song, circa 1981, predicting the city’s destruction. Here are some excerpts:
Atchafalaya, she’ll be comin’ on downAin’t no way to stop her, ain’t no high groundThere’s a swamp and a bayou ever’where aroundAnd a couple small Cajun towns
Up a […]

The internet is running like a slug today, inching its soft body so slowly as to make one wonder if it’s moving at all, yet leaving a thin trail of slime as evidence that yes, indeed, it most definitely has moved from here to there. Power’s out in New Orleans and Biloxi, making me wonder […]

Though I am unobtrusive and often overshadowed, my voice is poetic and lyrical. Dark and brooding, I see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying to impress other people. Though I make reference to almost everything, I’ve really heard enough about Michelangelo. I measure out my life with coffee spoons.
Apologies and […]

When I was in college I used to especially like the back to school sales. It was a time to indulge myself by browsing through notebooks, pens, and highlighters, and picking up happy colors that would cheer me up during the hard work of the semester.So now I’m obsessing about my materials and wondering what […]

I recommended this book to someone a few days ago and it occurred to me that it would be good for me to read it myself. Now that summer crunch seems to be coming to a close I want to delve into creative pursuits again, but I find my brain is confused with possibilities. I […]

After the long hours I’ve been putting in at work I thought I deserved to treat myself to some new rubber stamps. I got this 8×10 unmounted sheet of miscellaneous doodles from Traci Bonkers Originals.
I’ve mounted individual rubber stamps before, but this is the first time I’ve attempted to do a whole sheet. I’m mounting […]

The first pecans of the season have started falling. They are mostly green and small, about 1″ long. These are what my mom calls the “misfits,” the nuts that for whatever reason weren’t meant to ripen. The main crop will fall in late October, I think. I can’t seem to remember dates from year to […]

That’s pronounced “mah-tay” and in my tiredness of late I forgot to mention this interesting plant from South America. I was introduced to mate about fifteen years ago by my favorite history professor, who had done a stint in Buenos Aires, and he told us about the “national drink of Argentina” and how great it […]

We spotted a coyote a couple of nights ago. We’re thinking it may be what was attached to the eyes watching us from the wooded hill a few weeks back. We thought it odd that there weren’t any other critters out and about but seeing the loping grey form heading toward a field told us […]

I don’t know how I can keep making myself get up in the morning. I don’t like to think about my condition if we stay on eleven-hour shifts. The almost continual napping I did yesterday only put a slight dent in my weariness. The naps were full of nightmares, too, and would have made for […]