Now I’m really behind… having skipped another day, with no catch-ups. Ah well, the sop to my conscience is that at least I’m busy and living well, rather than grinching in the background.
Yesterday, we drove up from San Diego to Los Angeles… I intentionally wanted to take all day. We took the PCH from Camp [...]
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I am behind in my Holidailies posts, which means I may drop below the dreaded line.
The bright sunny afternoons, the beach here, the mild temperatures and the laid back California folks are having a turkey effect on me, which is a good thing for me, not such a great thing for racking up blog posts. [...]
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The best thing about Christmas for me is the quiet. There’s a hush in the neighborhood and everyone seems to have some place to be. Those who don’t, of course, are hiding somewhere, sulking, mourning, idling away the day so that it doesn’t hurt too much.
We’re flying out of a busy airport tonight, and I [...]
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Apparently, there are certain parts of the turkey that can dull a person into a glazed over, humming pile of happy. Like… the cooked parts.
I am a victim. I ate turkey tonight and drank wine, and thus, the last 45 minutes have been spent backspacing and block-deleting stuff in this little box. The happy suffuses [...]
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As promised, this entry will recall a “best” from my childhood.
Except as I think back, I cannot remember one particular Christmas as a whole. There are moments and glimmers and little videotape replays of great moments, and if I try even just a little bit, I can remember disappointments. So much of my childhood was [...]
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It dawned on me that I need to work on an “artist’s statement.” Which isn’t the typical kind of me-me-me statement about my aesthetic. It’s more of a discussion (treatise?) on why creativity is so important to me and why it can be, should be vital to others.
I have a new book from Amazon entitled [...]
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When I leave the blogging for late in the evening, my tank is low and I don’t have much coherent to say. I also had a right busy day out in the world — lots of errands and driving around in cold fog. It was rather Dickensian, except for the freeways, cars, cell phones and [...]
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To show my pedigree a little bit, I have edited the Holidailies writing prompt for today a la Bourdieu. (Bill if you’re reading this, I’m giving a little Gallic shrug as I type.) (Keep reading below the cut. There’s free beer!)
Pierre Bourdieu wrote about meconnaisance, which translates as mis-remembering. This literary and philosophical construct posits [...]
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I listened to an interesting sermon in church last Sunday (it’s not online yet), entitled “The Irrational Season.” The minister’s message was that this is indeed a season filled with “irrational” thoughts, or at least ones that defy logic — it is a celebratation of the birth of a child from a woman who is [...]
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(This entry was chosen as a “Best of Holidailies.” Thanks!)
Wrapping gifts is a lost art.
I learned it during one weekend of working the gift wrap desk at a major department store when I was in high school. I didn’t get paid, but my mother worked there, and one day I was hanging out and someone [...]
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