One of my grandfathers was an enthusiastic outdoorsman. He had no patience with people who thought picnics were a way to enjoy nature and slight tolerance for people who thought camping required a tent. HIS idea of an outdoor vacation was two weeks off the trail with a sleeping bag and a frying pan. Continue reading “Tenting Tonight”
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Summer Toms
Spring has sprung, I guess. Around these parts we recently had our first 80 degree day, just a few days after what MIGHT be our last Frost Warning. But I do not, thank goodness, write a weather blog. Not for us, Petunia Cutlet, debates over global warming or fresh water theft. Here, we treatContinue reading “Summer Toms”
Wish You Were
So, when last we got together, we were discussing what I insist on calling the “grade school Valentine postcard”: an aesthetic choice of artists and/or postcard publishers to apply classic Valentine form to postcards which could be sent all year long. This involved a bright picture with a fairly obvious bit of wordplay whichContinue reading “Wish You Were”
Year-Round Valentines
We have discussed in this space before the matter of the classic grade school Valentine, and how it related to postcards. I have nothing new to say about this, but I DO have a couple of new postcards along this line, so I thought we’d revisit the proposition. For those of you whoContinue reading “Year-Round Valentines”
Fiction Friday: The case of the Purloined Penguins
“Well, Lieutenant?” “Nothing, Captain. Not a single break in the Cotner Case.” “Only a matter of time, Lieutenant. Continue to monitor Facebook, and keep your staff on Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube. Something could be posted at any time.” “Can do, Captain. But, er…”. “But what, Lieutenant?” “Wilson had anContinue reading “Fiction Friday: The case of the Purloined Penguins”
Fishosophy
They say a person can learn a lot about life from fishing. This is, as our ancestors said, as may be. I can’t speak to it. I gave up fishing at the ripe old age of eight or so when my excitement at actually catching a fish was dashed when I was told IContinue reading “Fishosophy”
Pet Pairs
One of my numerous former employers has for years tantalized us with the possibility of a massive exhibition of items from its collection related to dogs and/or cats. I never had anything to do with that branch of the place, but I would bet anything that one of the reasons this has never happenedContinue reading “Pet Pairs”
Hazel and Lavonne
It’s all about accidents and chance. Did you ever run across some rediscovered artist online: some songwriter ignored in her own day whose friends preserved her manuscripts and recordings or author whose stories and poems were published in cheap, quickly discarded magazines? Years later, someone comes along and says “Hey, look at this!” andContinue reading “Hazel and Lavonne”
Love and Radishes
While I was refiling some of the postcards we examined in our meditations upon romance, the idea leaped out at me that we have been passing by a fairly common romantic association on postcards of the past. That is the connection between romance and food, the association of the stomach and the heart. TheContinue reading “Love and Radishes”
Not Getting It
More postcards have joined my inventory, and some of them prove to be (so far) beyond my intense scholarly research on the Interwebs. So I thought I might share some of the things I am clueless about. No, wait! Come back! I said SOME of the things. My space on this website is notContinue reading “Not Getting It”
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