My dad and I went to the Fort Worth Alliance Air Show on Saturday.  The day was gorgeous, but a little windy.  

Still about a a mile from the actual air show.  The pink smoke in the middle is from a parachuter, and the white smoke is of

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Yom Kippur approaches.  On Yom Kippur, the book of the year closes, and the fate of each individual is decided for the year.  It is a day to be spent in contemplation and atonement.  It is a day I take seriously.  It is a day I have learned to take seriously. … Read full post »

Diatoma recently wrote about all some of the things students do that professors fail to find endearing.  In their defense, not all professors are noble torchbearers of knowledge and thinking, but rather rushed, self-important, and more concerned with anything other than actually teaching. … Read full post »

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I am late.  I was supposed to be here months ago—we were supposed to be here months ago.  But of course we broke, three weeks before we were to be here, and it is not so easy to find the I in the waste/… Read full post »

I needed an excuse to post photos of the Cat hiding behind some VCRs and DirecTV boxes.  I swear I don't run a pawn shop or deal in stolen merchandise, because that would make me a really crappy stolen merchandise dealer. 

Seriously, VCRs and DirecTV boxes, and not even the… Read full post »

^{We did not actually use anthing pictured, other than a spatula or two.}

A couple times a year, the Half Latin Boy and I invade my mother’s kitchen, make an enormous mess, and don’t leave until we have splattered butter and flour on every nearby surface. … Read full post »

I am a jealous god, and you shall have no gods before me.

Note: if you don’t want to read over a thousand words about a dog with a taste for fine Spanish leather, now is the time click that little back button.  You know, in… Read full post »

 There is no hiding behind technology

One of my favoritests of favorites on OS slunk quietly into the night.  No good byes, no flouncies (despite a promise to cast a supernova of a flounce, should he ever leave).  The only evidence he left, to/… Read full post »

After breaking up with me, Will wanted to stay friends.  I wanted to stay in touch with him only to make sure he paid his half of the cell phone bill until the contract expired.  

He called at least every week.  I rarely answered when he called, but waited a… Read full post »

The Lincoln Navigator embodies all that is wrong with the American car.  It’s a Lincoln badge and some leather slapped on a Ford Expedition, which is what happened when the F-150 fell in love with the station wagon.  It’s lipstick on lipstick on a pig, and therefore a/… Read full post »

Sam and I became friends in class, even though we frequently found ourselves on opposite sides of any issue.  We studied together: first at Starbucks, then when we realized we needed to spend more time studying, at a bar, then, when that got too expensive, at his mother's house… Read full post »

Equipment for pony painting:

Cattle markers, various colors; non-toxic

Mini horses, various colors

Permission from the owner:

DENIED.

For years, my friend Beth and I had plotted on and off to paint her family’s… Read full post »

We met each other’s men at the same time, at Jack’s.  You and Lumpy had come to Dallas for Christmas, and we met up for lunch.  Lumpy wore a long black leather trench coat, which, frankly, looked absurd on him  (To be fair, it would have looked absurd on anyon/… Read full post »

Last July, my sister started pestering me with invitations to join Facebook.  I ignored them.  She then promised baby pictures.  The baby is no longer a baby, but a big girl of three.  But I have fallen into that old person trick of freezing children in time. … Read full post »

^{(CC) Larry D. Moore}

My last year in college, I finally had an apartment.  I had half an apartment.  Sometimes less.  My roommate was a recovering anorexic and German, so occasionally difficult, but what I won’t tolerate to live with someone willing to mop.  S/… Read full post »

I may be a city girl, but my city is Dallas.  I therefore cherish some implausible notion that I carry deep within my yuppified DNA the experiences of my ancestors: rugged and sometimes lawless settlers of a harsh frontier who roped and raised cattle.  Many Dallasites proudly… Read full post »

On this day in 1836, the nascent Texian nation completed its first secession.  Sam Houston’s force of 900 overran the siesting Mexican army of 1300 in eighteen minutes.  For the next nine years, the Republic of Texas lurched along as an independent nation.  It borr/… Read full post »

The bar stood in the interstices where the Mexican dive bars met the queer nightlife.  He pulled into the parking lot with a panache that made several people too close to the entrance of the parking lot jump back.  The car next to his bore the bumper sticker/… Read full post »

^{Work here for a good time, not a long time.}

One course stands between this stupid degree and me.  One little course.  A writing course, of course.  One paper, and it is nearly finished.  I have to tinker with some paragraphs.  I have to vomit up a/… Read full post »

The man known as Harry Homeless presents himself as the unwashed mass of Open Salon, where he spouts incomprehensible and apocalyptic warnings.  He looks like he wants to channel Lewis Carroll by way of the Ancient Mariner, but mostly he reminds us of the guy at work who/… Read full post »

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I take the dog out for her walk.  She is uncharacteristically unbuoyant as we head outside.  Before we even get to the sidewalk, I notice the burning smell.  It is too early in the day and in the week for it to be someone&rs/… Read full post »

When I was between relationships, I made a list of what I wanted in the upgrade.  The man I did find hit almost everything on the list, although he did have some bonus features I didn’t count on (smoker, poor vascular integrity, unaccountable fondness for Adam Sandler/… Read full post »

 I don't pretend to know how internet advertising works, but this particular placement seems ill-advised:

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A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven:

A time for being and a time for dying,

A time for planting and a time for uprooting the planted;

A time for slaying and a time for healing,… Read full post »

I have nothing against children.

I have nothing against parents.

I have nothing against idiot parents.

Please note the distinction between “parents” and “idiot parents.”  If you can’t find the distinction, we all know which group you’re in.

I do re… Read full post »