Hello friends, There is important business to attend, up and down our road. Everyone must understand that this is our road, and we don’t allow any nonsense in our sight. First thing in the morning, once Winnie and I have our potty outside, we have cookies on the rug by the kitchen. We did have… Continue reading Business~ By Duncan Deering
Many years I’ve spent feeding and watching chickens, from chicks to hens or roosters. Silly birds, peck at tiny specks on walls, each other or my shoes. They roll in the dirt, looking like an old dishrag, ecstatically flipping grains of sand into their feathers, to get rid of tiny mites. It seems like… Continue reading The Electric Chicken
Venus and the crescent moon were still high in the pink sky. Coyotes were yipping in the gully this morning. They’ve been coming down from the mountain for a few days. Last November they came down the gully, yips yaps and howls. That’s when my pretty Kitimis disappeared. I looked for her for weeks, though… Continue reading Kitimis Lives On
Most little girls seem to have a celebrity they admire and want to imitate. When I was about eight to ten years old, I wanted to be like Natalie Wood. I saw her in Gypsy and West Side Story, and she was my ideal. I suppose because her hair was brown too. I liked to… Continue reading Natalie and Me
My youngest memories are of a Daddy who was fun and funny. When my sister and I were little, he went to work before we were awake in the morning. Christy and I always got up before Mommy, who worked at night. On the kitchen table Daddy set up a little breakfast for us. He… Continue reading A Story About A Pop~ for Father’s Day
The first time I ever went out for Trick-or-Treat, I was small, probably four or five. I don’t remember much about going door to door. I had a plastic mask that was hard to breathe through. It might have been Tweety Bird. The next day I sat on our front porch and dumped out the… Continue reading My Favorite Halloween Candy
Kevin Spacey wants us to keep funding the arts. Why should we pay for that? Who cares if clothes all look the same? Who needs designers? Who cares if cities have beautiful parks and statues? What about the Philadelphia Philharmonic- who listens to that? Broadway is the biggest tourist attraction in the world? Poetry- pff-… Continue reading Kevin Spacey and The Arts
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