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Monthly Archives: April 2008
My Last Blizzard
April 18, 2008 – 10:21 pm
Winter, 1982-83, neck wrapped, leaning on the soft smells above the noonish counter in the cold gap between two multi-stories near Times Square, I ate sidewalk pizza as the flakes began to fall. They were whispers in the soft wind, but the weathermen waxed “much more, much more.” By 3 p.m., the City was anticipating [...]
Heave Ho and Up She Rises!
April 17, 2008 – 5:32 pm
It was the wrong season for whales. It was the wrong month for sea lions. The gulls only tolerated me and to be true, I enjoyed them only within my limited fascination for the inexplicable red spot on their yellow beaks. For the first 20 minutes, a lone brown pelican held my attention as it [...]
Baseball: Recapturing Youth
April 12, 2008 – 11:37 pm
As a kid, baseball was my sport. I was too short to be effective in basketball, no one played soccer in the 50′s, and although I was fast and could catch, my lack of bulk marginalized me in football. I played Little League, made the All-Star team, and loved the game. I played softball in [...]
Birthday
April 8, 2008 – 8:04 am
Today is my birthday. Also born on this day in 1944 was Odd Nerdrum, a prominent Norwegian painter. Our names were switched at birth. * * * “Wanderers at the Beach” 2001
Oregon 218 — 44 Million Years Ago
April 6, 2008 – 8:31 pm
Drive north in the belly of Oregon through long, rolling rise-and-falls, seer-suckered by sagebrush, past scruff and cattle, persevering on US 97 until you find a road at Madras that leads eastward toward a tiny brown square on your AAA map labeled Clarno Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. After the intermittent, [...]
Mom’s Cafe — Salina, Utah
April 4, 2008 – 5:07 pm
There are sage pronouncements that should never be ignored. In his 1956 short story collection, A Walk on the Wild Side, Nelson Algren wrote: “Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s.” I have always avoided faux physicians at poker palaces, but once, after nearly two handfuls of [...]
Eggman — Part 6…The Next Generation
April 2, 2008 – 11:13 pm
After Doug and I returned home from that first afternoon of delivering eggs with Dad as our unexpected driver and co-deliveryman, we were completely unprepared for his next question: “How much bigger could we make this egg route if we really worked at it? Doug and I looked at each other. Dad had said “we.” [...]
