There are several people close to me who I believe have inattentive-type ADD and I know I should feel sorry for them but frankly I am sick and tired of dealing with it. One of them is my mother-in-law, a sweet pink-cheeked white-haired 70-something who is so scatter-brained you wouldn’t believe. We had plans this [...]
All posts for the month June, 2010
Lovely
I think that I ain’t never seen A poem ugly as a spleen. A poem that could make you shiver, Like 3.5 . . . pounds of liver. A poem to make you lose your lunch, Tie your intestines in a bunch. A poem all gray, wet, and swollen, Like a stomach or a colon. [...]
Posted by Mo on June 18, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/lovely/
Listening to Time for Three
The only thing I love more than classical music is classically-trained crossover musicians. These guys, Time for Three, are unbelievably amazing. They are two violins and a double bass and omigod do they have the classical chops — and they play a mix of everything under the sun. We Just Burned This For You is [...]
Posted by Mo on June 17, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/listening-to-time-for-three/
Sequelae
Well now I’m feeling a little guilty about having laughed at Jay’s injury. It turned out he broke his femur. He had emergency surgery late Saturday night and came home from the hospital the following Tuesday (yesterday). Whoops. It was kind of interesting how events developed. The break itself (femoral neck, just under the ball [...]
Posted by Mo on June 16, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/sequelae/
Thanks, dude
So, the angst-y adolescent I mentioned earlier? Yes he is annoying as hell a lot of the time, but he has his good points too. Yesterday the eighth grade went on a field trip to the public pool. Jay, goofing around with his friends, hurt his hip. Not so badly that he couldn’t bear weight [...]
Posted by Mo on June 12, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/thanks-dude/
Argh!
We have an angst-y adolescent in the family, our 14yo son who is finishing the eighth grade. He is basically a good kid and I am fairly confident that he’ll be all right when he comes out on the other side of this, but lordy, lordy! These days, he is No Fun At All. I [...]
Posted by Mo on June 9, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/argh/
Half of a Yellow Sun
As I mentioned yesterday, I turned to Patrick O’Brian as respite from a couple of heavy war novels I’d been reading. One was Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I picked this up from the library at random; I think it was lying on top of a cart waiting to be shelved. [...]
Posted by Mo on June 8, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/half-of-a-yellow-sun/
Rereading Patrick O’Brian
After a spate of heavy reading (two war novels in a row, why I did that I don’t know) I went back to my tried and true, my darling precious beloved Patrick O’Brian. I hardly have words to describe how much I love those Aubrey-Maturin novels, how immersed I am in that world. I mean [...]
Posted by Mo on June 7, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/rereading-patrick-obrian/
Hello, world!
Normally I am not the type to just go with default settings. No, I must customize every piece of my environment, whether it is online or in real life. However, I do think the WordPress default post is such a nice way to start off a brand-new baby blog! I always picture a little bird [...]
Posted by Mo on June 7, 2010
http://moander.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/hello-world/
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