BurningbirdI had finally gone through all of Dad’s books and decided which to keep, and which to give away. I called the library, but they weren’t accepted any new book donations until April. The lady I talked to asked what kind of books they were. I said they were mainly mystery and detective novels. She […]
I sometimes think that a poet is really a frustrated engineer. Or is it, an engineer is a frustrated poet? Researching what kind of metadata one could capture about a poem, I’ve found that there are a goodly number of rules and restrictions when it comes to poetry. More than I’m aware of from my […]
The Apple Store is in the West County Mall, a very upscale and large mall that’s only about twenty minutes away. This was my first time in one of these, and my first reaction was that they must still be moving in. However, I was assured that the white, empty spaces made it easier to […]
Born too late in a strange land, lost with love of a people you can never claim. Living a time you can never know. Touching flyleaf of book as hand of friend. Surrounded by plain walls that can’t keep you safe, from sepia faces with delicate tints. You walk streets you resent because your prints […]
There is one story for Kitchen I’m working on called “When Beauty becomes the Beast”. It’s about the CBS Documents and their impact on weblogging (not to mention weblogging’s impact on the CBS investigations). For some reason this subject saddens me a bit–as if we’re seeing the end of something that once was and we […]