Well, we can all breathe a sign of relief here. It seems that two pre-teen cheerleaders found this particular AWOL baby Jesus after “cheer” practice and returned him. He was all hanging loose by the school’s trash cans. There’s only one problem: They found a gaggle of baby Jesuses—baby Jesi—and they can’t figure out where […]
So, this morning, the news reported—-a long, long report, by the way with many interviews and pictures of the “crime scene”—that the Baby Jesus had been baby jesus-napped out of a nativity scene down the street from where I work. There were a lot of bad references in the story to the thief being a […]
The written word is not dead. So, pull you head out of those old stuffy tomes and try something penned in the last decade or two. (I’m a big fan of the classics, myself, but no need to limit the joys of reading.)
Looking for quirky American tomes? Try these:
1.) Cathryn Alpert. “Rocket City.” A dwarf, […]
She didn’t want me to buy her anything. So, I fell back on my old stand-by: a poetic tribute.
for Amethyst on her birthday
there are things—so many things—you can never control:
the thoughts of others
the age of grocery store vegetables
the weather
those 11 inches came down so hard, so fast
so unusual for this place of hot, harsh Oklahoma […]
In 1985, my friend Maxine and I—we were in 7th grade at the time—we went to see “Some Kind of Wonderful.” You remember the flick. Eric Stoltz. Mary Stuart Masterson. He’s the outsider artist who gets a date with the beautiful, popular girl.
I related to Watts, the best friend who was in love with him. […]