"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
No one wants to read the squalid details of another’s illness, so I’ll spare you that. I’ll merely report that I picked up a stomach bug two nights ago, and the details were squalid indeed. Although the worst of it has passed, the blahs persist. What’s worse, I passed it on to poor Donna, who […]
Polly’s birthday was almost two weeks ago, but she couldn’t get down to Tucson until this weekend. Donna and Polly went shooting Saturday morning and afternoon; in the evening we had friends over for dinner and an impromptu party. Damn, Wog, forget your sun block? Mary Anne brought two cakes (sorry, Schatzi, no chocolate for […]
I don’t often mention it, but we have a cat: Chewie’s about 14 years old. Even when she’s relaxing, she looks like she’s thinking evil thoughts. Schatzi had a big day yesterday: we hashed all afternoon, then had a house full of company in the evening. This is at the party, when she discovered that […]
Donna & Polly spent all day Saturday at the range. Should I worry?
After tearing my motorcycle apart on Tuesday, taking a little ride on it Friday seemed appropriate. Ed, my partner in maintenance mayhem, came along to make sure we’d put everything back together correctly! We rode south and west on back roads through the Santa Rita Mountains to Patagonia, stopped for lunch, continued west along the […]
When my kids grew up and moved off on their own, I had all this love and affection left over. Especially since I never used much of it when the kids were around. So I got a dog, and discovered that once you start lavishing love and affection on a pet, things can quickly get […]
Two months ago my motorcycle key slipped from my fingers and dropped down between the fork tubes. Before I could grab it, it slipped beneath a plastic shroud and fell down inside the fairing, deep inside where no hand could reach. I was, of course, 25 miles from home at the time. Donna, the kindest […]
Downfall (2004) If you have even the slightest interest in WWII in Europe, Downfall is a must-see. Who isn’t fascinated by Hitler? I lived in Germany in the mid-1950s and the images are still with me: bombed out buildings, walls with bullet holes, kids my age with twisted legs from rickets, women everywhere, almost no […]