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Monthly Archive for May, 2004

Forty-Three


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Seeds of Mass Destruction

We have a pool. A nice in-ground pool. 29 x 13 feet, heated, fiberglass, hubba-hubba pool.
Our neighbor has maple trees. Maple trees are bad. Maple trees make maple seeds. Billions and billions of seeds.
As a child I loved these seeds as they were primitive helicopters, spinning slowly to the ground. My parents had a single [...]

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Siete de Mayo


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#397

This entry is the three-hundred-ninety-seventh posting to my site. The oldest dates back to December of 1999. We were living in Vancouver Washington then, enjoying the mild climate of the Pacific Northwest.
A lot has happened in the intervening four years, two major cross-country moves, jobs lost and found, and lost yet again. The tiny seeds [...]

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Life Goes On

As I approach the end of week seven of unemployment, life goes on. Bills are getting paid, maple seeds are netted off the pool, and groceries are bought and consumed. The trash gets taken out, and the kitty litter gets changed. Dishes and clothes are dirtied and washed.
It is all starting to feel normal, or [...]

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