Administrative Professionals Week (April 22-28, 2007)
You clouds! Remember to thank the air For holding you up.
View ArticleThe size of thoughts
Many years ago, a very tall man and I went on our first date. After watching East of Eden in the campus auditorium, we went back to my dorm room, made popcorn, and talked. One of the things my new...
View ArticleMother’s day poetry wanted
I have a dear friend who lives too far away, but pops in and out of my life once or twice a year, usually by email. She just sent me a lovely Billy Collins poem in honor of Mother’s Day. It’s called...
View ArticleThe Baby: A Mother’s Day Poem
——————————————————— By my friend Kurt Lash, who once let me sing back-up… ——————————————————— On a night so dark and dreary I found myself with eyes so bleary staring at the TV blankly while the...
View ArticleHappy (snort!) Mother’s Day!
Sometimes when you ask for poetry, you get poetry. But a lot of people are very bad at following directions. I find this a great relief, actually: It’s good to know I’m not alone! From Gina (before...
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Last night. Wedding. Former colleagues. Dinner with seating chart. Argh..
I’m nobody! Who are you? I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell...
View ArticleSecretly? I love blog spam
Of course, another reason to keep blogging is all the great spam you start getting after a while. I don’t just mean the sex ones, though there is that. Here are some of my more printable favorites: How...
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More amazing spam poetry
Naturally I only discover an idea after several others have already picked it up and run far, far away with it. Kristin writes poetry using only the subject lines from the hundreds of pieces of spam...
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Tuesday: help us save it
He respects Owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.” - A. A. Milne There really isn’t much else to say about Tuesday, once a person...
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Almostgotit confesses, belatedly, to a murder
Image My 8th grade daughter has a bad teacher in one of her favorite subjects. He’s a swaggery guy, newly imported from the west coast. He uses curse words, makes stuff up about English grammar,...
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