Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
It’s My Rule
It was a delightfully ordinary day at Casa Eclectic. R. particularly enjoyed the paper because it contained a profile of two local artists she knows well. For most of her life R. was an accomplished artist and still enjoys news of that world. I had a productive day at the computer, was successful in locating [...]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Comedy of Manners
Okay, I’ve seen the 1940 version with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. I’ve seen the 1995 mini series with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. And now I’m watching the 2005 remake with Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightly. And I still have to ask the burning questions, when will Hollywood get over this bizarre love [...]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Tide Wasn’t In On It
Without question Andy and Mike are like little boys – but armed with clever, calculating feline minds. They delight in tormenting R.’s psychotic Somali. Now, let’s just clarify. Mia is 16-years-old, deaf, almost completely blind, and has kidney disease. And she’s dealing with an infestation of young, devilish tomcats in her house.
Today, however, I observed [...]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Long Lost Video Tapes
This afternoon the Ellen Degeneres show was a re-run of her 30th high school reunion. Barry Manilow appeared and sang, “I Write the Songs.” I never hear that song the way other people do. I always hear it as a marching band number and in my mind I can still see us, back in the [...]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Synopsis Sunday
Looking back at the last three weeks I marvel at the amount of disruption that came out of nowhere and then crawled back to where ever disruption dragons live when they aren’t rampaging. More would seem to lie ahead, however. Our only normal neighbor announced she’s selling. Could we possibly get someone worse than Crazy [...]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
Snapshot Saturday
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An old snapshot of Papa taken in 1922 at one year of age. Today would have been his 85th birthday.
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Friday, March 24th, 2006
Small Arms Fire
This evening I had a phone visit with my friend M.H. whose daughter is recuperating from knee surgery. During the conversation M.H. mentioned that one of her sorority sisters had come to visit them in the hospital.
“You were in a sorority?” I said, my voice tinged with amusement.
“Oh, yes,” she said in that cheery way [...]
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Master Stroke
I spent a greater part of the morning re-fighting the First Battle of the Marne for one of my freelance writing gigs. For those of you who are World War I enthusiasts, you’ll be glad to know the French pulled it off again and forced the Germans to retreat to the Aisne. I’m working from [...]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
The Snappiest Thing . . .
For as much as I’d like to be blogging about something clever or interesting, my world is still filled with tissues, menthol patches, echinacea cough drops, Vitamin C tablets, and Tylen*l. Yesterday I thought the cold was passing but I woke up this morning congested and grumpy and actually went back to bed after my [...]
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
A Kind Word
Today was the first time I’d ventured out of the house since Friday. It’s been cool and pouring buckets of rain, not good weather for someone with the cold / sinus infection / crud I’ve been fighting off. I’m still not 100 percent, but we were out of coffee and low on cat food again. [...]
