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Sep

12

When Your Power Goes Out Without You

The last gray glimmer of day fades behind the storm that made our electricity go out on a blind date without us. Like the pioneers, I sit and write by candle light. Unlike our forefathers, my iPhone sits next to me, pinging alerts about my Facebook friend’s power outages and pictures of other’s food or funny selfies. Tesla and Steve Jobs must be rolling their eyes and L-ing out L.

This blackout has also served to remind me why I got high grades throughout Elementary School in every subject besides penmanship (well, I blew at Math too, but for the purposes of this narrative, let’s just confine it to handwriting).

Things I Take For Granted, in no particular order:

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Dec

18

Apocalypse Now?

What can I say? I’m taking this whole end-of-the-world thing seriously. If Mother Earth does a pole dance and sticks the North Pole where the sun don’t shine, then I want to take this opportunity and wish you all a merry end of the world.

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Aug

17

The Girl In The Cafe

Everyone knows I love movies and that I also love sharing the ones I become enamored with.

When a friend from my past pointed me toward The Girl In The Cafe, I was surprised I hadn’t heard of the film before. Read More

May

23

If Only I Were A Poet

Watering the bare patches of lawn, dug up by dogs or withered by neglect, a hummingbird drops by.

Mar

30

London Thawing

NOTES FROM LONDON

The first time we came to London in Spring, there was snow on the ground. Now, Marci can work on her tan in March.
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Mar

07

Krakatoa Katie

Mighty Mouse dances with Krakatoa Katie.

(Go ahead, click on the link if you want to watch the six minute cartoon.)

Thank you internet.

As my buddy Mick Cochran famously noted several years ago, “Who needs a brain, when I have Google?”
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Feb

09

Cosmic Close Encounter

Do you remember a while back when an immense burst of radiation slammed into the Earth? I can’t forget about it. It’s astounding to think that a shockwave of pure energy — enough to power every electric toothbrush, every smart phone, every presidential campaign and every civilization for billions of years — exploded into the atmosphere just a few miles above us while we slept, blissfully unaware.

Jan

11

First And Worst

January is the wicked step-mother of months. Contradictory and contemptuous, January is sun, rain and snow, all in a half-hour’s time. It’s slushy toboggan runs and black ice on I-75. January is your passive aggressive co-worker who smiles in your face then shoves daggers of ice in your back. It’s not surprising, since the month is named after a two-faced Roman god.
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