How to Tie Shoes in Ten Easy Lessons

He pulled his face back from the warm, sticky cement so that his ear unplastered itself from his scalp.  Once freed, he set his cheek against the sidewalk again, finding it cooler but only for a moment.  The boot weighing down on the base of his spine jiggled slightly as its owner laughed about something [...]

How to Write a Good Blog

I know.  Now I’m a pro, right?
Definitely not.
But I was curious so I did a little research.  Sadly, most of the websites that would give a person like me advice on a subject like this were too hard to read so I skipped over them.  I found that a little ironic.
Here’s a general one that [...]

Touch

sourtaste7 AT hotmail DOT com, you know how this works.  And please, be kind to drunks and stray dogs.

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

Theological question of the day (since it’s a Sunday):  Isn’t asking for a sign from God like proposing an ultimatum?
“…do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the si-i-ign?….”
Honestly, if God lit a burning bush in front of me, would I take it he wants me to be a firefighter?  A botanist?  An anti-botantist?  A [...]

Trainees and Other Precious Metals

Oh, to know everything at once and in that one moment and for employment thereafter be complete. 
 I HATE TRAINING!
Why, oh why then, am I the one most often chosen for this particular manure-moving task?  Is it my patient nature?  My carefully crafted words?  My large silver shovel?  These days I feel hardly Herculean in my [...]

Friday Afternoon Spendthrift

Yes, that’d be me.  I have been spoiled with a Friday payday following vacation pay payout following another payday.  This Friday, no paycheck but still the urge to splurge!  I did happen to find a copy of The Scarlet Letter in a music store (fifth store looking) and a real cheap copy of Walk the [...]

Rant

Does it pay to be me?  In advanced reading copies….yes, it does!!!!

Spring Has Sprung

and the croci are bountiful (crocuses, maybe?).  Another room outside to clean as well as the innards. 
Good news, though, The Scarlet Letter is on the horizon and I’m hoping to make up the three weeks I’m lagging in Early American Literature by sailing through two novels in quick-ish succession and whip off some type of essay [...]

Telemarketers and the Fiery Depths of Hell

‘Nuff said on that subject.
After getting off the phone, I am rapidly putting down something meaningless and more than likely very boring.  Ah, life.
More strange dreams last night, all regarding Harry Potter.  I’m worried about this obsession I have with his tousled black hair.  Is Harry a Horcrux?  Will he die?  These mysteries soon to [...]

Dream a Little Dream

I had a dream the night before last that Margaret Atwood was zonked on my Salvation Army store couch and she DID NOT want to watch T.V.  She was lying face down and mostly talking to the floor but her words still had some of that firecrackery spit to them that I left the T.V. off.  I wasn’t [...]