That’s all the room we now have for title display in the most recently updated list on DD’s homepage. I’ll have to keep that in mind, since I like titles that either fit completely, or cut off at a critical word, leaving people anticipatory or misled. A cheap trick I know, but paid authors do…

My last visit for a check up at the transplant center was January sixth. They decided then that they didn’t need to see me for four months, and scheduled me for an appointment on May fourth (next Tuesday). It would have served as a one-year check up as well. Note that by the use of…

There’s a challenge making the rounds at DD now to take the book nearest to you right now, as you are reading this, open it to page 23, and post the fifth line in your diary. Here’s mine. From Lao Tzu Tao te Ching, A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way…

I’d love to stay at a B&B, but there’s virtually no chance of rousing The Socialist before noon. Breakfast tends to be long over by then, and I doubt our hosts would be very thrilled by the vampire hours. We’ll be better off at a conventional hotel, I suspect.

Things are quiet here under my rock recently. The cats are easing into their summer laziness, and aren’t doing much worth reporting. Well, the Grey Menace did find another spider to play with, but this one lasted far shorter than the spider I documented her playing with last year. She’s still rough with her toys,…

Last Friday there were four; this morning there is only one. Some misfortune must have befallen the goose family out back of where I work, because three of the little yellow peepsters were missing this morning. Mom and Dad goose are being particularly protective of their last ball of fluff, and when I saw them…

At work we have access to a catastrophic reimbursement fund. People with large medical bills above and beyond insurance coverage can submit for reimbursement through this plan. I was told that I wasn’t eligible for this fund because the bulk of my expenses were incurred while I was still an active, full-time employee (insurance paid…

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Last year, when The Sisters planted my garden for me while I was recuperating, they planted three plants that never bloomed. My younger sister couldn’t remember what these plants were, but I was told to leave them be, and that they’d bloom the second year. Well, all three plants are back, and two of them…

I was at loose ends last night when I got home, so I went for a walk. I’d gone for a walk about my apartment complex the night before, and explored a bit along the creek and woods that are part of our grounds. The spring wild flowers are just starting to hit their stride,…