BEYOND ALL MEANS
Nurse Sphincter
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
- Birthday
- November 21
- Bio
- babyrichard aka Nurse Sphincter is a writer and nurse
MY RECENT POSTS
- Away in a manger
February 18, 2011 07:27PM - Why I wore snowsuits in August
February 01, 2011 10:11PM - 'Pterodactyl' crosses Canadian
border
July 18, 2010 07:54AM - The beauty of 'beaters'
July 11, 2010 04:06AM - Found: Tom Waits autograph
July 09, 2010 01:17AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks for your kind
words, Dolly. It'd be a crime
if I
forgot to pack my
accordi…”
February 21, 2011 03:34PM - “Nope, can never give up
books. But we have cut down on
volume
by using our
trusty…”
June 28, 2010 07:35PM - “God, we have more stuff
than ever. I fear there's a
segment
on
"Hoarders&qu…”
June 28, 2010 07:34PM - “I received this update
on "Weasel" and it confirmed
my
fears:
"
He…”
June 19, 2010 02:59AM - “Thanks to everyone for
your moving and kind comments.
I've
been lost in a
persona…”
June 17, 2010 12:44PM
Nurse Sphincter's Links
Away in a manger
Landlord said this morning to
me
‘Give me your key, this lot ain’t free
I can’t get no rent out of you
Pack up your act and skidoo, you
“Moving
Day”
Lyrics by Andrew B. Sterling
(1906)
Mary and I are moving to a stable in a few days.
For… Read full post »
Why I wore snowsuits in August
Wearing a snowsuit in August is
pure torture. But when I was 4 years old,
it was a
matter of survival.
I wore this unseasonal garb because Mike - my predatory 10-year-old brother - was on the prowl and I was his prey. An aspiring hunter, he was forever roaming our southern… Read full post »
'Pterodactyl' crosses Canadian border
This photo has always been a favorite in my wife’s family. It
shows the migration of the Fugere family from Minnesota to Manitoba
in 1922. I recently found this clipping in the Sept. 1, 1922
Grand Forks Herald that confirms that the Fugeres’
unusual transportation mode/… The beauty of 'beaters'
My friend Warren was driving through the northern Minnesota woods when he felt an industrial-strength sneeze coming on.
Ahhh…ahhh…CHOO!!
Warren’s false teeth shot out of his mouth and plunked onto the floor of his old Subaru. Before he could reach down and snatch them, his car hi
… Read full post »Found: Tom Waits autograph
Finally tried to launch a serious clutter-clearing campaign in my apartment yesterday. Then I unearthed this long-lost autograph from one of my favorite musicians. Now things have slowed to a crawl while I look for other buried treasures. It’s hard being “Mr. Minimalist.”
&n… Read full post »
Pinocchio of the Northern Plains
Turner Classic Movies broadcast “The Wizard of Oz”
over the July 4th weekend and, like clockwork, my eyes turned
toward the skies.
I’m a weather worrywart.
My fear of storms was born during my childhood on the Southern
Minnesota prairie, where tornadoes and… Read full post »
Lost in the 'Land of 5,000 Panties'
There was Craig the “toe queen,” who became overheated and amorous because I was tapping my foot while playing harmonica, and Ray, that rarest of… Read full post »
Collecting: back from the abyss
Before moving to South Carolina five years ago, I published an antiques newspaper and spent 14 years writing about collections that ranged from mundane to sublime, from old wagon wheels and Pez dispensers to Federal furniture and fine Meissen china.
Dispatch from 'Nurse Sphincter'
Jobless scribe heading
back to bedpans, bunions and blood
Well, folks and kinfolks, I completed my first week of nurse refresher labs in Greenville, S.C. and it was quite a ride. What began with a strong impulse to quit on Monday ended Thursday with me displaying part/… Read full post »
For some reason I thought about "Weasel" last week. It had been 38 years since we had talked and I had lost track of his whereabouts.
"Lobster Boy" was not the nickname I coveted as a youth.
But I got the crustacean moniker because of my malformed thumbs. I was a human tweezers, hence, Lobster Boy.
As a thin-skinned grade-schooler, anyone calling me Lobster Boy risked an all-out pincer assault. Schoolyard wiseacres often… Read full post »
Patient-built private shacks were a common sight in the woods surrounding Minnesota's St. Peter State Hospital in the 1950s. Photos courtesy SPSH Museum
Remember the final scene in the movie “Papillon?”
Aging Devil's Island prisoner Papillon (Steve McQueen) &nda… Read full post »
Jobs come, jobs go.
These days they just seem to be vanishing into the ether.
But back when Nixon roamed the earth, I was young, earnest and curious about the lives of working-class Americans. So I embarked upon a series of entry-le… Read full post »
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