I cooked yesterday for the first time in years. I mean cooked, not toasted a Toaster Strudel.
I have to say that I still have the knack. In fact, I kicked ass! (I think that to some degree, kitchen craft comes naturally to me.)
Mom’s come down with a nasty sore throat and dizzying ear infection and […]

Not only a barraging Hüsker Dü record but the passion-obsession of real-life Burt Munro, the subject of the movie The World’s Fastest Indian, which I went to see with my ladies, Mom and Marion.
Let’s get a couple incidentals out of the way:

Incidentally, much like the way I used to laugh to myself about a […]

Two notables yesterday:

Walked past Mom reading the East Valley Tribune. She said, “You want to hear your astrology[sic].” I said I did. So she read to me the entry for Capricorn from Eugenia Last’s astrology column for the 2nd of March 2003: “Charm will get you everything you want today. You will be insightful but […]

I realized today that flossing my teeth is as good a bellwether as any for how I’m doing.
Flosswether Legend:

0 Flossing - I’m being naughty and lazy. (Should this be accompanied by less than regular brushing, there’s no doubt I’m in the depths of depravity and despair.)
Flossing < 1x / day - I’m getting by, doing […]

All over the place today:

I sent an email to my friend Prairie with the words, “Barney Fife is dead. Thank God for reruns.” She wrote back, “That’s the difference between you and [my husband]. He told me Mr. Furley died.” The Andy Griffith Show marathon was on TV Land last night in honor of Don […]