Category Archives: lotus eaters

about people who are not facing the here and now, but have to be there and then on cell phones and ipods

test drive

This body that I inhabit seems to delight in experimenting to discover just how much pain I can stand As if shingles and impacted wisdom tooth removal and constant sciatica and headaches and nerve pinches and that pressure bandage on … Continue reading

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does not compute

My wife had a pretty frustrating time today trying to use my computer to send an email. She is not used to my steam-driven machine, and dislikes having to keep the boiler fired and the mouse fed, as she hates … Continue reading

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reluctant clocks

gremlins have dropped by our snowbound house taking a mad March break from playing havoc with aircraft and fiddled with our clocks quite a picture mad March gremlins using our clocks for violins in some zany orchestra up in the … Continue reading

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