Lark

I’m a lark. I often post here well before dawn. As we draw near the end of daylight savings time once again, the morning person in me rejoices. It’s nearly 8 AM right now, and barely light. I’ll be so glad to have some morning light again. The dark nights of winter are good for [...]

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The World Without Us

I’ve been reading the very interesting book, The World Without Us. In many ways, if people disappeared from the world tomorrow, nature would reclaim it quickly. Our lasting legacy would be poisons in the form of PCBs, plastics, nuclear power plants, and petrochemical plants. Trees, flowers, insects, animals: all would thrive in our absence in [...]

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Grass

The nasty damn Burmuda grass seemed to exemplify everything that was wrong with this place her husband had dragged her to. She was a bluegrass kind of girl. The kind of girl who liked to lay her head down in something soft, not scratchy. The kind of girl who wanted a relationship that didn’t invade [...]

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Off balance

Dr. Oz wrote a book that says, among other things, that you can tell your brain age by seeing how long you can balance on one foot with your eyes closed. When I read that, I couldn’t even keep my balance an entire second. It was time to go back to Tai Chi. I’m still [...]

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Tony

I was sad to see on the local news last night that one of my favorite writers, Tony Hillerman, died. He wrote mysteries: sensitive stories about the southwest and the Navajo people and lands. He was a generous man who helped mentor many younger writers to grow and improve. Rest in peace, Tony.
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I saw

I saw a tiny pumpkin
Atop a fence
Aglow with light
Even in the dawn.
Overhead, the sky
Washed morning blue
Misted by pink clouds.
Between sky and pumpkin
Yellow leaves clattered
In the rising air.
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Poppycock

Newsweek ran an article about tobacco ads of the past when ball players and stars assured smokers that cigarette wouldn’t make you hoarse or cough. Newsweek called it the power of poppycock. Maybe we finally faced the facts about smoking, but I don’t think people have lost their willingness to accept to poppycock. The human [...]

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All sex

He strutted, preened, posed,
A perfect bad boy,
All sex, all the time.
Women offered him drinks
And he sometimes took them.
Women watched and he looked back.
But when he went home,
He did his laundry, reconciled his checks,
And then he slept alone.
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That dress

“You look so beautiful in that dress, Addy,” she said. She tossed her jacket aside and closed the apartment door. “When you walked into the restaurant in that dress, I swear, my heart stopped.”
Addy stood still while she walked a 360 around her, admiring. “What really makes me crazy isn’t the dress, though, it’s this [...]

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Take a walk

How’s the weather? The high here in the southwestern U.S. is supposed to be in the mid-70s today. A Chamber of Commerce day—the type of day the Chamber likes to talk about to people thinking about moving here.
The only way to enjoy it is to get outside and take a walk. That’s right. Get up [...]

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