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Dec.28.2012 Box o' Ducks Readers: Part Two of "God Won't Let You Starve" will be posted soon. In the meantime, I'm sharing a piece written shortly after I returned to the small community where I was raised, after an absence of almost forty years. In preface to this piece, I am obligated to let you know I am an...	Dec.18.2012 Water Proof December 18 WATER PROOF What could water prove anyway? I get in the water and I get wet. I’m sure there is a theorem but a proof is highly doubtful. Naiads dance with tridents in their hands illustrating the beauty and danger of the waves but...
Apr.02.2012 Paduans April 2 PADUANS The pussy willows bloom looking much like crested poultry. The coldest part of my heart is fighting to thaw in this early spring. Weather is not of the mind to be rushed. Neither my hopes nor the changing calendar can persuade the warmth...	Apr.17.2011 The Antique Game (part 5) - CAPITAL TALES In these less internationally volatile times, Beckett sat in Kensington Park on one of the wooden benches with the dark green flaking paint and passed mildly pornographic afternoons, checking out female tourists. Sometimes, if he was a bit flush, he might feed hash cookie crumbs to the ducks and...
Mar.15.2011 Twitter: 140 Characters is Just Enough Rope There's no law in the U.S. against making an ass of yourself. Yet. But there are always consequences (and please don't take the noose image literally, okay?). Gilbert Gottfried aka the voice of the AFLAC duck is the latest celebrity to go down because he crossed the...	Nov.20.2009 Nº34: Down On The Farm Retrospective – 4 of 4 In which we battle maggots, seek to save donkeys who do not wish to be saved, dodge mercenaries, work on another novel, talk to the ducks, get bitten in bed, delve into German mythology, and talk to the ducks a bit more. Click here for an excuse October 2007 CAST: Diarist – muggins...
Sep.29.2008 Autumn Walk Silver wind on the bay, Blue ducks whistling over the waves -- the flash of my brush.	Jul.12.2008 A Duck Revived I think I have revived one of my ducks (see last blog entry if that doesn't make sense to you). I met with an artist acquaintance yesterday for three hours and it was fantastic. Having lived with artists the last few years I was used to that particular energy around the house and then when I...
Jul.09.2008 Fifi's Loaning Me Her Rubber Chicken My three-week search for a rubber chicken for VBS has been successful. Brianna told me Sunday afternoon that Fifi has a rubber chicken. I called Mary Ellen the next day to double check and told her to ask Fifi if I could borrow it. Everyone agreed Fifi said yes. Brianna said Fifi didn’t like the...	Jul.06.2008 Your Duck is Dead Do you ever feel like you're trying so hard to keep all of your ducks in a row, keep everything straight and orderly, attending to every little quack and you look away for just a moment and when you turn back, low and behold, one of your ducks is dead? And you're left holding the bag, the bag for...