Pacing back and forth across the little patio behind the apartment I can hear the ocean a block away. In the night sky I can see Orion just behind the cell phone tower disguised as a palm tree ( Read more... )

I get labor day and memorial day confused. They're like the parentheses of the summer bracketing it in nicely. This weekend is.... uh, one of those ( Read more... )

Being up in the mountains away from my mad social life, I have to do all my catching up during the weekend ( Read more... )

On my first job interview I bumped a woman's car with my car door. I said I was sorry, then went into the store for my scheduled interview and she followed me in and yelled at me like a crazy person and called me a bastard.
I got the job.

When I checked my student roll I saw the name of a person who had been a very difficult student in one of my other classes. I had the option of not accepting him into my current stone setting class. Something has changed. Perhaps his medications are at the right levels or he's taking them regularly as he's been just fine to have in the class. ( Read more... )

One of the consistent things in the last 10 years has been my teaching classes at this school. A couple of weeks a year I've come up here and taught silver smithing to people interested in learning such a thing ( Read more... )

I've moved with the heroic help from friends to a trailer, yes, house trailer, right beside a wonderful rushing river.
Did I already mention this?
Many things have transpired since last I wrote and hopefully I'll have the tenacity to write more.
Of course I've been writing in my head a lot but that really doesn't count for anything.

Last night I worried about getting up early enough to get anything done. This morning's dream was of standing on the porch of a house floating on water and a friend (who loves snakes) warning me to watch out and looking down I saw a poisonous copperhead snake around my feet and I braced for the stinging bite. I stayed still and didn't get bit ( Read more... )

On this quiz I found some of the questions rather tricky. Like having to say,"yes, I disagree".
My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 4.1, Libertarian: 4.05

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