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This week, in my little Internet sphere, a friend I have known only through blogging has blogged about blogging issues. Fresca is the creative person behind some cool videos (about things other than blogging). She is an author of geography books and someone who knows how to make her own books, if the situation calls … Continue reading
typewriter snippets
Remember (you who related to my post last week about my mom’s old Royal) how it felt to snug the sheet of typing paper into its place between the guides, to turn the carriage until the top of the page came around? If it was off-kilter, you pushed and held a release button while straightening … Continue reading
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Tagged pages, Richard Brautigan, royal typewriter
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writer’s royal tool
An old friend came down from our attic. It tugged my memories. The gray, dignified look, the smell of ink ribbon, the sound made by a key’s strike. At once I was back in my bedroom during the summer after sixth grade, when Mom finally allowed us kids to practice writing and create whatever we … Continue reading
in all things
My mom’s okay after a health scare last weekend. A bad reaction to medicine met the caring oversight of medical personnel. She’s home now, and by turns she’s resting and preparing for our meal tomorrow. Thanksgiving week is a good time to hug loved ones. Last week, a bit under the weather, I decided on … Continue reading
ten lanes across
Away up I-5 from here, past mountains wearing cloud pinafores and showing snow-laced petticoats, there’s a wide spot in the freeway, four lanes in each direction, with a new express lane being constructed on each side. I remember the area well. The exit sign reads Fife Milton, and if you’re heading north, off to the … Continue reading
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Izzard runs and belly laughs
Two things I never could’ve dreamed up appeared online today: 1. Comedian Eddie Izzard has been running marathons around the UK all summer. I mean, he has run one every day, six days a week. Amazing. You can read the story with a couple side interviews here. I came to enjoy Izzard’s stand-up humor almost … Continue reading
Posted in better to laugh, goofy, interesting, newsy, random stuff
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in random briefs
I overslept this morning. Today the heat probably broke a temperature record. Will it be our last hot hot day of the year? Will, a good friend of my son, James, leaves this week for college far away. Today Will’s mom, Shelley, and I chatted in the shade out at their country home, while her … Continue reading
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Socrates was a loafer who cared for neither world history nor astronomy. But he had plenty of time and enough eccentricity to be concerned about the merely human, a concern that, strangely enough, is considered an eccentricity among human beings. ~Soren Kierkegaard, as quoted on an invitation to graduation for the Gutenberg Class of 2009.
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the littlest guy
Well, I can’t help it. I’m rather pulpitizing my blog of late, but there are things to say. Perusing the online version of First Things this morning, I found a eulogy for Fr. Richard John Neuhaus by Robert P. George. The author describes Neuhaus, a once sought-after intellectual speaker and Lutheran pastor who became a … Continue reading
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