It wouldn’t be Amen. It probably wouldn’t even be Dear, as in Yes, dear. Would it be goodbye? What would occur to you if you had ten seconds to write something down? I expect the sound in my ears would be something like Niagara, the feel of my heart clamoring like a teenager’s double-bassed trunk. [...]
Archive for the ‘Heavy Thoughts’ Category
The Last Word
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, Writing on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Resolutions, Closures, and Endings
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, Writing on August 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am so habituated to the 100 Days Project I wanted to begin this title with a number. But what day is it? What post? Have I used this title before? Ah, no, I am in my own space here.
I feel like I did when I worked at the temp company, and I spent the [...]
Miscellania
Posted in Heavy Thoughts, Stuff on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The dog goes in Tuesday to have his torn ACL removed, screws placed into his leg bones (could look up their proper names if I cared to), and a clamp onto those to hold the whole apparatus together. Then he gets a facelift–leg lift?–by having the ends of his skin overlapped and sewed more tightly [...]
Retirement Options
Posted in Heavy Thoughts on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of Star Wars–what will always be known as “the first one” to anyone alive and in the theater in 1977–we see Darth Vader’s TIE fighter spinning out of control, and into the depths of space. We are safe at last from the terrible threat of empirical tyrrany.
Alas, all of us know that [...]
Square Peg, Round Hole: Who Loses?
Posted in Family, Heavy Thoughts, Kids, School on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I should be tearing my clothes in mourning and gnashing my teeth in torment: my son, a junior in high school, is failing English. Failing badly–or maybe failing superbly. At this writing, his average is like most adults’ ages, a 30-something. Instead of crying from the rooftops, though, I am going to bat for him [...]
