This is Wilson. I found him one night at Fred Meyer’s. I was feeling sad that night, and when I saw Wilson, I could see he really cares. His is the look of empathy. The top picture is of him sitting with the light duck, Dolly. The bottom picture, I hope, shows you why […]

Today’s Words:
manipulate
feeble
ahead
oatmeal
involve
incidental
grace
Grace is this fundamental concept that was missing from my consciousness as a child. I’ve had to learn it, slowly, haltingly, with great effort. What is grace? It is that which is the nature of the Cosmos and life itself: a gift. Something freely given, but which you cannot contrive to receive. More abundant that you […]

Today’s Words:
homophile
Patsy Cline
insectivorous
pug
spiteful
nick
sprinkle
i found this chinese fortune that i got several months ago. it says this week you will receive support from surprising sources.
it was a week of unusually long talks with clients.  the talks were long becuase it wasn’t the same old talk.  one client told me she always wished she could be a […]

Hmm. En passant. I had to look that one up. Apparently, it’s some kind of chess move. I never understood it myself, but one of my grade school friends (well, not my friend, exactly, but that’s another story) was really into chess. She went to tournaments in Jeff City over the weekend and played against […]

I went to DIY Stories tonight, as a bystander. Yes, I resolved, before going, that I wasn’t going to tell a story.
There was a beautiful and intriguing woman present. About my age. Much nicer skin.
With a man about half her age. About Emma’s age. Much more fur.
I was hoping the intriguing woman would rise, and […]

Today’s Words:
tyke
speckled
ambassador
diamond
shadow
schmecky
real
Schmecky isn’t in my little wordweb dictionary, so what do I do, go off and find it? Can’t. Only have a few minutes to write.
Diamonds. That necklace I wrote about the other night, the one that Manny gave me, had a little diamond in the middle. I think all the stones were real. I […]

i hate calling in sick, because i have to sound sick over the phone, so i test out my voice to make sure it sounds appropriately sick and then i call. it’s dumb. because you and i both know that i am truly sick. yet why must i feel that i am […]

Today’s Words:
conversion
skin
famulus
seek
opposite
schlep
weary
I live near a big boulevard, Glisan. Glisan cuts a long swath — hundreds of blocks across Portland, East-West, but the swath is only wide–4 lines wide–for about 20 blocks. I live within one of those twenty blocks. For those 20 blocks, Glisan is inhospitable to pedestrians. And yet, because there’s a bar, […]

i live in eastern europe.  that’s what i decided pretty much today.  and i’m talking eastern europe with the wall still up and the barbed wire and the armed guards and what have you.
people trying to build hot air balloons in their basements just trying to fly out of there.
anyway, last week was supposed to […]

Today’s Words:
midriff
pit
cecum
cheat
gulag
amphigory
cameo
Thank you Emma for putting the daily words off to the right. I’m finally whipping up word furrows directly in wordpress, and from the comfort of the chair in my room, with laptop atop lap.
I ended up with a few family heirlooms from my grandma Dickinson. A pair of opera glasses, brass, with mother-of-pearl […]