Archive for January, 2010
Positively spudacious
Maybe you’ve seen this, but a friend sent this on and I thought I can’t be the only one who hasn’t. Plus, who can resist a Gilligan’s Island reference? Please excuse me, I have some potato salad to prepare.
Rated S for sad
From Tuesday’s Home Place column: On the day you read this, I’ll be getting ready. Ready to walk through the one-year anniversary of my husband David’s death. His unexpected, unprepared-for death. I started chronicling just days after David left me on Jan. 27. My first blog entry, written at 86 hours post-death, was titled “That [...]
I think she may own some words
Maybe some of you remember something I wrote here not long after the dead guy became the dead guy — that when David and I used to argue (oh, I long for a good argument), he told me it was impossible for him to win because I “own all the words.” I don’t, but dang [...]
“Click”
Here I am, sitting at my desk, sending up a thank you to the dead guy. Why, you ask, scrunching your nose slightly — “Why does she call him that?” I sometimes say that as a way of acknowledging I keep David in the loop, but he is, after all, the dead guy. Anyway…a frantic [...]
Who prayed for the fish?
It appears we have a real miracle right here on top of my desk. Just a week or so ago, I was begging Gilligan’s Uncle Andy to check the fish bowl before I arrived at work, in case any flushing needed to be done. It was that bad. Every time I came in, I had [...]
Tigerlicious, or, what IS it about Colorado?
First Balloon Boy and now an artist full of hot air… This just in. A Colorado man was arrested Wednesday for apparently using Gatorade bottles to send a message about America’s favorite punchline of the moment. Jason Eric Kay, 38, was arrested on charges of misbranding and altering food labels with intent to cause serious [...]
One good deed deserves several others
From Home Place at www.union-bulletin.com There’s not a lot Bill Dunham hasn’t seen in nearly 20 years of work at the Walla Walla Police Department. He’ll be the first to tell you he’s not a police officer. But as evidence-minder and record-keeper, Bill is aware of the ebb and flow of the business at the [...]
My gosh, these were good
I’m sorry, I am forced to rain down upon you another cookie recipe. But I am telling you, these came into the newsroom on a day of bruised skies with a side dish of wind that stings the thin flesh at the back of your ankle. These, folks, were miniature suns, radiant with beams of [...]
Oh, Joy!
First of all, Gilligan update: So far, so good, a little more lively this morning. He ate breakfast! Thanks to those who sent in helpful ideas about Betta health. Now then. A wonderful thing has been happening, almost without me realizing it. The twins, recently 16, have both started to get into cooking and their [...]
Gilligan is morose
Moody. Misunderstood. Maudlin. Or something. I took my little betta fish home for the holiday to be sure he got adequate attention and brought him into the office on Sunday. “Back to work, Gilligan,” I told him. “Blah,” he bubbled. Actually, he began looking a little blue (sorry!) a few days before that, swimming up [...]
