Without fail, Jessie cracks me up:

for the cute little kids with good costumes, there's good candy, and for the hulking brutes wearing jeans and pumpkin t-shirts and not even saying "Trick or treat!" cheerfully, there are Necco wafers.

This quote from the Monday Madness site is very apt, for writers:

"Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income."
..Robert R. Updegraff

I sent this to myself yesterday but I was insired to post it by SRL's post of another Oliver poem.

( Fall Song by Mary Oliver )

He calls me because he is running errands and was going to go pay my registration, which is due, oh, today---but first he had to pay my parking tickets or they won't renew my registration, and it turns out I owe the City of Northampton my first born child. So he called to tell me there is no way he can get that much $ out of the bank ( Read more... )

"But that single 35-mm. rectangle of color film contains, it is estimated, the equivalent of forty megabytes of digital information: forty megabytes, the contents of an entire small hard disk, in every frame of a movie. Even if one assumes all sorts of clever data compression, it is diffficult to imagine digital storage systems matching the Van ( Read more... )