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Paul and I are still walking our three miles almost every morning, a very good thing, as confirmed by this YouTube, which I posted on my Facebook account a couple of weeks ago. So right now, I would say, I’m … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Mammut Stratus I wrote about back in March, 2009, has died. It was getting pretty ratty anyway, but “Massive zipper failure” is what the doctor wrote on the certificate. (This was always the worst part of this unattractive but … Continue reading
Christmas Eve, and the Concordians should be just about starting their trek south to us. We hope to see them before midnight. This is the first Christmas sweet B at least partially understands. Considerable excitement — mostly, it seems, less … Continue reading
Some decades ago, one of us attended a fashion show at a no-longer-extant, moderately fancy department store. The ludicrously pretentious presenter insisted on introducing items and accessories as being perfect “for that of spring.” We, of course, stole the locution. … Continue reading
Sweet B’s precocious language use and the various manifestations of her outgoing personality (anything but the norm in this family) make us laugh and smile whenever we see her. They also make us wonder where all this came from. Just … Continue reading
I’ve been seeing delightfully more of a great good friend lately, and that’s inevitably reminded me of a trip he and I took into the Sierra in, I think, the late ’80s. I have no idea all these years later … Continue reading
Many decades ago, when I was, I suppose, a senior in high school, a slightly younger boy came up to me one day and asked, “How can I get to be a good runner?” “Well, you could hop in with … Continue reading
Sweet B helped set up a little crèche yesterday. She calls it “the Jesus farm.” … Continue reading
She died today, at home in Mindelo, on her native Cape Verde island of Sao Vicente. I wrote a little about her here a few years ago. What a singer. … Continue reading