Entries Tagged as 'summer'

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

and the livin’ is easy

The Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday, since I was a little kid in a small town with a parade and relay races and fireworks over the beach at night.  The fireworks exploded so loud I called them thundercrackers.  One year the folks out on the barge bungled the order and shot [...]

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Seattle

Monday, July 26th, 2010

this is a long drive for someone with plenty to think about

Collected Road Thoughts: -words without translation — examples include the German weltschmerz and the Korean word for a certain kind of stress -societies that cannot be taught mathematics because of their lack of a number system and also the wonder of a new human (baby) applying their learned numbers to real-world things, like pieces of [...]

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

a midsummer dread

Driving up to Petaluma, I passed an 18-wheeler hauling the broken-down rides from the county fair, which ended a few days prior.  I half expect to see little Pete and Artie tussle with some waves, but it’s still only July.  Phew!