That ol ball and chain
So I was talking with my niece last week over dinner, and said something out loud that didn’t really strike me until it was already outta my mouth. It’s often that way with me-I think it, I say it, THEN I absorb the full implication of it. Yikes, right? Still, its proven insightful at times. Anyway, I said something along the lines of ‘Money... [Read more...]
Quan Yin-in the dark
Quan Yin statue I step up to the altar-greet her dragon; gaze at her face. I light one candle, then another, and mentally rest for a moment, though I am standing. It feels like a perch, spiritually. A place at the end of a quick-light footed staircase, leading to a panorama. I perch there, and muse on my path, and the various threads that intersect... [Read more...]
What’s news
I feel like I haven’t been here for a long, long time. I attribute this sensation to the secrets I’ve been holding onto, which I’m about to spill all over the place right now. Not so much as secret, as…selective information. Yeah…yeah, Vinnie, that’s the ticket! So let’s start with nutrition. Some of you... [Read more...]
Babymania
So. I’m in love with a girl. She’s about 4 weeks old now, and I can’t stop staring and singing to her. Has this happened to you? I went up to visit Best Friend and new baby, and it was a TOTAL. personal. revelation. I should stop and mention here that I’ve never been much of a baby person. Pregnancy is hard for me to get into,... [Read more...]
Tom Robbins-how he warms my cockles so
Tom Robbins has been the guiding force of my literary imagination for as long as back as I can reme…..well, to be specific I was 19. I can’t recall how I came by a copy of Another Roadside Attraction, but I did, and it blew my tiny mind, to put it mildly. It was then, and remains now, the oldest, most worn out, rattiest, cover duct-taped,... [Read more...]
