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Plus I\'m Already Here
I had a comment, a few days back, from someone who wanted to know why in the world I would live in Minnesota, knowing full well that, several times a year, the weather would try to kill me.I wept, of course. She would never know the lure of the Stat...
I’m Like A Rich Person Over Here!
Ah. Welcome to Labor Day Weekend, my friends. The USA will be engaged in a four-day love affair with the end of summer, with BBQs, with getting fabulously drunk with friends, and, if you live in Minnesota, going to the Minnesota State Fair.Have you b...
And Then I Got Into The Camper and Was Never Heard From Again
The camper is back. The same camper that was parked across the street for a month last summer is back. The camper showed up again four days ago. I’ve not seen anyone go in or out. This means little, really, but I feel it needs saying. Still, t...
I May Have to Turn the Air On
You may not know this – despite the e-mail blasts and the billboards – but not only am I the type to cling to the Old Ways (ie soups from scratch and milling my own soap) but I can also be kinda cheap.OK. I don’t mill my own soap. What do you...
I'se In Yer Neighborhood, Pickin’ Up Yer Trash
I’ve got this thing about garbage. I’m against it.Not just any garbage, of course. Garbage cans, landfills, dumps – as ugly as they are, they’re necessary. Ugly, smelly, and necessary.But look over there, there in the park. What the?? Yo...
He’s Three – No, Four Blocks Away…
Like the man with the seismically impressive stereo system I can hear coming from blocks and blocks away, the man on the Harley is almost home after a long hard day at work.Here he comes! You hear him? BLAT BLAT-BLAT-BLAT BLAT BLAT-BLAT-BLAT!I have...
Requiem for a Tan
Ever so many years ago, when jeans were tight enough to double as tourniquets and we feathered our hair within an inch of its beer-highlighted, mayo-softened life, we revered the tan.What do you mean, who's "we"?Why, the winter-weary, bikini-wearing,...
M-I-C – See Ya Real Soon! – K-E-Y – Why? Because It’s All Inclusive!
Afternoon Al is counting down to his Disney World vacation. He has been doing this since he returned from last year’s vacation at Disney World.He, his wife, and his 10-year-old go there every year for one week.He sat down next to me on the bus –...
Holy Crap! Run For Your Life!!
The drive-in tried to kill me when I was 12.How, you say? Well, I did a bit of babysitting in my youth. Of course, one had to do quite a bit of babysitting at that time to make any money, because the going rate was fifty cents an hour, regardless o...
In Case I Should Kill the Ice Cream Man
Do you live near a park? I do; and thanks to the Ice Cream Man and the music/aversion therapy piped, loudly, from his truck, I now associate “It’s a Small World After All” – segue-ing into “Three Blind Mice” – with elevated blood press...
partypartypartypartyparty
Who do I talk to around here to get some of these summer activities moved to fall?Don’t get me wrong – I love being busy, I love seeing friends, dancing, drinking, telling stories.But it gets into my sleep cycles and the next thing you know, I’...
I Never Learned How It Ended
I’ve been caught in a flood of sorts, a flood of memories wherein I am repeatedly made aware that what I’ve seen/heard in the past is either not what I believed it was or, worse, something I forgot about: The guy who was clearly crushing on me, ...
Go Jump In The River
T shouldn’t have even brought it up, but it was too late now, he could see that.In his mind’s eye, Kevin was already jumping.Kevin pulled over and put it in “park” on the side of the highway. Early afternoon on a bright summer day, there wasn...
That Reminds Me – I’ll Have Several Large Rolls and A Shake…
Welcome to summer, season of fleshly exposures and frightened, abused clothing.Lady, what did those clothes ever do to you that you would be so cruel? That shirt – surely you caught it selling top-secret documents to the North Koreans, yes?I think ...
