My hair is a live thing Jealous, smothering my lovers Clutching and holding around my neck and seeking my entrails. Eager at each orifice: mouth, nose, ears, anus… But hair spurned! It is not dead cuticle cut like so many inert cheese sandwiches; Seeing the intent, seeing the salon and the stylist my hair cuts [...]
Random Craziness
Every School Needs Herding Dogs
Dear Faithful Readers, I have observed closely the habits of the common surfer (okay, I decided to notice what I was doing with my spare computer time.) If one is to tear me away from repetitive games at which I barely improve – in spite of 30 THOUSAND tries, there needs to be a story [...]
Random Craziness
Humour
I have been posting over at Canfield of Dreams.com. We have had a hilarious exchange. Over 20 comments, many that left me with tears running down my face, my belly in stitches, and my mouth in a big ol’ grin. The Canfield family is coming to stay in our house this August and I asked [...]
Random Craziness
Empathy, Heaven, and a form of Reincarnation
Is it turning 50? Perhaps, watching others get even older in response to my aging has me realizing that at some point I will need to wrestle with the question of death in a personal way. Not personal, as in my friend, mother-in-law, or beloved grandmother is dying – been there, done that and there [...]
Slice of Life
Mike Holmes
On my other website, Imagining Better, I wrote about my friend being my Mike Holmes – at least as far as saving me from the sins of the mattress company when compounded by my own. Here’s the story: Why is Mike Holmes the Secret Love of Canadian Women? Sure, he’s got the cute muscles & [...]
Random Craziness
What the heck is a Groupon?
Groupon Sounds like a “group getting it on”? A kind of fish? Some type of groping done while wearing crampons or tampons? It definitely doesn’t sound wonderful, but it is. Groupons are group coupons. If Groupons have come to your city, sign up: Groupon The way this works is the Groupon people approach businesses – [...]
Slice of Life
Booking a Flight
Biting tooth against tooth in her trademark grimace and still the tear rolled down her face. Thirty-six hours, at least, of checking fares, departure and arrival schedules, one-ways, returns, trains, planes, and automobiles. Saving $50 was so important. Important enough that the hotel choices were: rodents, stains, unfriendliness, less than 100 square feet, or noise [...]
Twisters
Easter violence
Couldn’t there be a ceasefire at Easter? “I’m not letting you bully me this year, I choose fuchsia!” And, the blue egg exploded in my hand.
Novel-T
Starfish Revenge
A big bad cold and a big lukewarm bath dare me to put them together. But, right now, nothing in the house is simple and the thought of bending over, head full of snot, to figure out a more adequate setting on the hot water tank has me settle for a half full, fairly hot [...]
Poetry
Fractions of Wonder
Fractions of Wonder Ohmigawd, I’m in love with a mathematician What is a mathematician? Do they come with credentials, like Barbie comes with a purse? Like an elephant and a trunk? Just liking math, – no credentials – just teaching math, – no credentials – might not be enough to be a mathematician. A mathematician [...]