It’s a frigging praying mantis. In my frigging garden!
As if the snakes and spiders and UV weren’t enough.
18 January 2009
8 December 2008
26 July 2008
I’ve been posting in memoriam for our Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Here’s another timely reminder that these are real people.
8 June 2008
From the school newsletter:
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving beast. Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
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