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  • All Things Disparate

    To quote Chesterton: “I am cultivating the faculty of patient expectancy.” In other words I am trying to deal with anxiety over the hassles that are occurring on getting out of this sealed tomb in the land of the dead. The moving men are here today to move Jane’s belongings into my garage so that […]

  • All Kinds of Feelings, All Kinds of Thoughts

    With my periscope I am seeing Cheney who Hobbes might have defined as “short, nasty and brutish,” Darth Vadering the TV shows, exhaling toxicity like some primal creature. We actually have a “debate” in this country, if you call it that, about what is torture, the equivalent of describing a chicken as if we don’t know […]

  • Everything Bagels, Dasani Water, and The New York Times

    Here is the plan. I live 5 to 7 miles away from the Strip. I get into my Honda with Jane and for lunch we go to the Vegas branch of the Stage delicatessen for pastrami on rye, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray, sour pickles and tomatoes, a round potato knish — we split that; deli french […]

  • In Between, Above and Beyond, Below and Beneath

    In between packing and labeling cartons “Office” and ” Books,” the air conditioning system broke down and I need a new compressor; the “For Sale” sign has been removed as I am renting the house for at least five years to an elderly couple who are in love with the house; I am writing a […]