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 […]

once upon time some friends took a trip to ireland.  they traveled their separate ways, but met up in dublin airport.  one came from barcelona and another from santa fe.  it was the middle of winter.
they both did “that thing” which most visitors in dublin do,  they looked very carefully in both directions when crossing […]

i was a little kid at the time. something extremely rare happened. for some reason, i was left alone in the house with a babysitter. this did not happen in our house. my parents had seven children, and never needed to hire a babysitter. except that one time when i had mumps and it was […]

Today’s Words:
catty
Valium
rancid
gravel
unsinkable
approximate
jellyfish
One day Emily and I were at the beach and there was a jellyfish washed up. It was dead, of course, but the degree to which I was eager to dig into it disturbed me. It was like silicone or some other inert substance. It was fascinating, but still, it was a corpse. But […]