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He Would’ve Been 86 (+ Two Days)
[Twenty-year-old Dad-to-be applies an arc-welding torch to a tank, somewhere in Europe, 1944-45. Handwritten caption on back: It's me again. Actually working. I told you so!] For years, this has been a psychologically complicated few days — at least for those of us in my family given to psychological complication. In no particular order: Dad’s [...]
Starting Out Fresh
From whiskey river (except for the last five lines; numerous other differences vs. the alternate source linked below): Exercise First, forget what time it is for an hour do it regularly every day then forget what day of the week it is and do this regularly for a week then forget what country you are [...]
Touch and Enter
In a comment on yesterday’s Towel Day post, Marta said: The miracle of the towel! The man who realized this was a man to be reckoned with indeed. That got me thinking: how cool it would be to come up with a… a something — an in-joke, an idea, a catchphrase, a little fictional detail, [...]
Don’t Panic — But Happy Towel Day!
May 25, as of course you already know, is celebrated worldwide as Towel Day*. Whatever you do, do not forget your towel today. If you cannot be properly entoweled, you might consider alternatives… carrying somewhere on your person folded-up paper towels purloined from the restroom, say. The point is, do not go about unprepared. Because, [...]
Be Careful What You Wish For: Signing in the Waldenbooks
[Hat tip to Miriam over at Dancing with Dragons Is Hard On Your Shoes.] _______________________________ P.S. And belated auto-congratulations to Running After My Hat for the missed anniversary: the most recent whiskey river Fridays post was #500 here. Is there a cake? How can there not be a cake?!?
In the Water
[For information about this photo, called "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida," see the Note at the bottom of this post.] From whiskey river: Adrift Let my dreams while I’m wide-awake loose. Let me be drowned, baptized, in the light given me. Day comes around, night, fall, winter, spring, summer. Leaves overhead, underfoot. Waves arrive, buffets from [...]
Take It Eeeeeeeeasy (Chorus of Strangers Edition)
From Ze Frank (part of his “Songs You Already Know” series): [Below, click Play button to begin. While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 1:51 long.] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] …and the story behind it, which begins: I received an [...]
Pushing Your Writing, Pushing Your Mind
Remember The Querulous Squirrel’s 100-stories-in-100-days challenge? Ambitious, wot? Supremely well executed, eh? Okay, now start with a similar premise: Write a story a day for an entire month. Saturdays and Sundays included. Holidays, too. No limit on word count. Just write a complete story each day. Simple to say, hard to execute, right? Just as [...]
Official 2010 Write Your A** Off Day (Pt 2)
I mentioned a “contest” of sorts in my post the other day about the New York Writers Coalition’s June 12 event: write 3,000 words on that one day, they said, and you could enter a drawing. Winner of the drawing would receive a free consultation with author Jennifer Belle. But I added: …other than this [...]
Lucid Dreaming
From whiskey river: A Remedy for Insomnia Not sheep coming down the hills, not cracks on the ceiling – count the ones you loved, the former tenants of dreams who would keep you awake, once meant the world to you, rocked you in their arms, those who loved you… You will fall asleep, by dawn, [...]
