We heard a report today of a strange burglary a couple of blocks from our house. The owner got a call at work from his alarm company and drove home to investigate. He arrived to find two police cars. He went inside through the open front door and turned off […]
I am from a yellow cat sleeping on a porch
and from a white-haired woman in a faded bonnet
tending a garden of hollyhocks and flags.
I am from butterflies dancing in the sunlight.
I am from the sand and the grassburrs,
and from a forest of blackjacks and post oaks
hard as cast iron.
I am from pinto beans and […]
Now what is going on? Some one has apparently hacked into my blogrolling account and replaced everthing with something called Laura’s Blog. I am temporarily taking out the blogroll as a result.
UPDATE: It wasn’t just me, apparently; it was everybody who uses blogrolling.com. Thanks to Jason for having a […]
Today was a cleanup day in the garden. I raked up pecan leaves in the backyard, chopped them up with the lawnmower and transferred the remains to the compost bin. I cut back the maximilian sunflowers which were just dried leaves and stems now and also the eupatorium which is spreading way beyond where […]
Fred First has been writing about speech dialects lately, which has inspired me to write down a few comments of my own on this topic.
When I was growing up in Fort Worth I was acutely aware of the difference between the speech of my relatives who were from rural East Texas and that of […]
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