Today’s Words: banter girth hag outgun coda regent whip My mouse is blinking at me with a red evil eye. FEED ME BATTERIES. Oh blah. I have no witty banter in me. My grouchy inner hag has outgunned my PollyAnna with a barbed whip. I don’t feel like writing.

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 [...]

Today’s Words: tyke speckled ambassador diamond shadow schmecky real There’s a book called I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence. It’s about how modern culture listens to music to get those glimpses of communion people used to get in church. I agree totally. I’m the generation, of course. Sometimes we sit [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Words: conversion skin famulus seek opposite schlep weary When we die, we must spend a good amount of time just recuperating. Sitting around in the etheric plane, feeling at one with everything, just weary from the years of trying to be an earthling. All the seeking and the schlepping and converting and getting together [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Words: vein carrion gorgonzola spark passable catamount otter I would never eat carrion with cheese. Gorgonzola? Blue? No, please! If I were to partake My stomach might break. (I admit I can be hard to please.) A passable exception is otter, Which might be alright with some cheddar; But give me a catamount, And [...]

Today’s Words: ore strata lazarette ex-husband windless limerick soup If I were a rock, I could eat ore soup for breakfast. I would comment on my strata and show off my bulging metamorphic … oh drat, I don’t know enough geological lingo to finish that sentence with proper metaphorical jargon. I’ll try a limerick. There [...]

Today’s Words: Labrador retriever misty helium dismiss wind sock rune spank I’ve never bonded to a dog. I’ve never gotten misty over a poodle or a Labrador retriever. I’m listening to this song by Savage Garden that has a line: I believe we place our happiness in other people’s hands. Perhaps that is why people love dogs so [...]

It was getting to be the time of year that the gnats came out in clouds and drove everyone inside. Where the gnats came from was a mystery, but since most things on this planet were a mystery, nobody much cared about this one. Except Marla. She wanted to know. She was tired of playing [...]