OK, a rant. The news this morning is upsetting. First, we have Ted Haggard, the preacher, who has come out of the multi-sexual closet and announced that he is such a pervert, he doesn’t actually “fit into any of the boxes” we have for sexual preference. I say, “Who Cares?” I personally don’t have a [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Stir Crazy
No, not the movie with Richard Pryor. I’m going crazy here at home, and so is Larry. We were watching the travel channel and saw this show about the original Buffalo Wings (some restuarant in Buffalo) and now want some. We have none. Will we go to town this evening for some? Can you spell [...]
January 27, 2009
Icebound, redux
This morning we are being assaulted by continued sleet and freezing rain. The frozen precipitation hits the windows and the skylights with a constant pelting, as though someone were throwing rice at the house. Will it ever stop? The radar (I put a link up to the radar – see the weather bug button on [...]
January 26, 2009
Icebound
Well, folks, I live in McDonald County, and we are apparently getting the worst of it here.
I keep telling myself that we will be OK, we won’t have a power outage, and everything will get back to normal in a couple of days. After all, I say, we had enough damaging ice storms in the [...]
January 24, 2009
We who are about to be snowed (iced) in salute you
It’s Saturday, and I’m enjoying the winter sun. The sky is that color of watercolor blue that only winter can produce during a January high pressure zone, but it is cold outside – 22 degrees at high noon. All the better to stay inside, do light housework, grade papers and study, right?
The forecast on my [...]
January 19, 2009
A front row seat to history
A student asked me today what it was like, growing up in the 1960s and experiencing all the assassinations and other things that were happening at the time. The question, which came in the middle of a discussion of this week’s historical inauguration of our first African-American president, took me by surprise for a second. [...]
January 17, 2009
This is my life – now.
My life has changed in the blink of an eye.
Today I spent the day as follows:
Attended the last Library Board meeting where I am a trustee. After 8 1/2 years on the board, it was time to go. Actually, past time. But Carrie Cline, the Director of the McDonald County Library, asked me to stay [...]
January 15, 2009
Parking Lot Wars
Today I realized that I had retained the most important skill for survival at the University of Arkansas – an aggressive parking lot stance. Years ago as a graduate student in English, I learned about how to get a parking space. Of course, this was in 1989-91, when one could find parking behind Kimpel Hall. [...]
January 14, 2009
Comfort Food Night: Chicken Soup and Rice Pudding
No, as I told Larry, you don’t put the rice pudding in your soup. Cold nights (in the sub-teens) and hard work need comforting food. This afternoon I decided, when I got home around 4:30, to fix chicken vegetable soup and to make a rice pudding. By 7 p.m., it was ready. In order to [...]
