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November 7, 2016 Today was a work day, but I took a break and stopped by Farmer Orville’s house. The temperature was seventy-five, and mosquitoes were in a feeding frenzy. And miracle of miracles, I picked a ripe tomato and … Continue reading →

October 31, 2016 The philosopher Aristotle, in “The Poetics,” wrote, “Is it better to be an old man who is embraced, or a younger man whom women avoid?” Farmer Orville, not to be confused with Aristotle, weighed in on this … Continue reading →

October 28, 2016 Farmer Orville and I cut down half of my redbud tree this afternoon. The tree, which had bloomed so lushly last spring, had its trunk split in half in a storm. The south half listed down until … Continue reading →

October 20, 2016 The storm hit with fury, mid-evening, and I watched from the open front door, the cat behind me and yowling. Rain slammed down, the fume and fog of it sounding like a waterfall, with rocks hitting the … Continue reading →

October 11, 2016 A chill is in the air, squirrels are playing with their nuts and Donald Trump is palpitating his right-wingnuts. Autumn lets us cool down, enables us to breathe easier, and wipes away the crazies in our brains. … Continue reading →

October 9, 2016 Go ahead, unfriend me. The truth is I grab a pussy three to six times a day. What’s more, the pussy likes it. Is it wrong? Wrong that the palavering, palpitating, polycrotic pussy purrs? Wrong that the … Continue reading →

October 5, 2016 Syrian star swimmer Mireille Hindoyan, who swam for the Refugee Team at the Rio Olympics, has been killed in an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. Her mother survived the bomb blast, finding her daughter next to her, legless … Continue reading →

September 28, 2016 Suddenly everybody is cold. It was 58 degrees this morning, with a hefty breeze blowing from the north. Simile of the day: The cleanness of the air jerked off my polluted lungs, like a deep tissue massage. … Continue reading →

September 25, 2016 I stopped at my grocery store for a bottle of wine this pm, and after walking up and down the aisle, I made a selection, a jug of cheap red. A clerk approached me. He was holding … Continue reading →

September 23, 2016 All is well in the natural world, where no black birds have been shot by bird police, where flocks of pelicans swirl on the river and no pelican police stop their fellows’ peaceful assembling, where butterflies flip-wing … Continue reading →