Embarrassing Moments Archive
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
[you can read part 1 here] THE NEXT DAY Knowing we had been spotted the previous day by the Little Green Men & that our near perfect shut-out score was in jeopardy, the next day Maggie & I decided to take the long, long way around the woods. We’d walk down the dividing yet fair game road [...]
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
[but first, the back story] Because Maggie’s so shy she’s highly in-tune with her surroundings – it’s almost autistic, really. She can spot the slightest difference from over 50 feet away. She’ll stop cold turkey, fully alert, ears-up, face wrinkled, chest puffed up & up on her tip-toes to look bigger…staring right in the direction [...]
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
As I type, my mother is in surgery back home. The doctors are trying to hammer, nail, pin & plate her shattered radius back together. (That would be the big bone in her arm, in this case her right arm – her bad arm.) That’s because a year before Eric & I met, my mother had a [...]