Humor | Humor
Apr.17.2009
Tonight I will be attending the13th Annual San Francisco Library Laureates Dinner, the big fund raiser for our fair city’s wonderful library system. The theme is “Celebrating the Theory of Evolution,” as library boosters mingle with thirty-five authors to raise a glass and toast the bicentennial of...
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Apr.16.2009
April 16
NAPPING
Too often, I have lifted the edge of the lawn in an attempt to join the worms for a bit of a dirt nap. Or I crawled into a self-constructed cave to bear my feelings and hibernate from life. The times I sprint with the deer, jumping the fences in hopes of escaping the wolves...
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Apr.16.2009
Now that my fiancé Kathi Kamen Goldmark has come up with her “million dollar idea” (note to Kathi: we talk in trillions, now) to invent a hybrid car that runs on pigeon droppings, I feel I can prepare for my new life as one of the world’s wealthiest people. Why? Well, first, I’m going to be married...
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Apr.15.2009
This past year, my family celebrated the Chinese holiday known as qingming (Tomb Sweeping Day.) This day occurs on the fifteenth day after the Spring Equinox on the Gregorian calendar. The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for Chinese to remember and honor their ancestors at grave sites. Young...
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Apr.14.2009
So this virtual son of mine, Keaton D. Barry, is really taking on a life of his own. In her blog my fiancée Kathi Kamen Goldmark is worrying about him breaking the furniture—which would be a sign that he takes after your side of the family, Kathi. Rosy Cole said “Perhaps we should send you some...
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Apr.14.2009
I can’t help myself. I have started five books and I can’t put any of them down.
Whew, I just finished a Marcia Muller mystery so I have two books in each hand and can put down the one that was balanced on my stomach. In my left hand are two that I am working on finishing because they are hard...
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Apr.14.2009
April 14
THE PLAYGROUND
Getting my ass kicked in the playground of my mind was once a daily event. Now, it is a far off memory. I absent myself from the jungle gym the same way I absent myself from bars---places set with traps and schemes I am no longer attracted to. Bullies and ego trips...
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Apr.13.2009
April 13
WILLING PIECRUST
I lay the crust of my will over the pie plate of God’s will for me. I must have the willingness to trim off the excesses. I hesitate; I worked hard to roll it out. I know from past experience, when hot issues come up, these tags and hangings-on burn and drop...
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Apr.13.2009
On April 1 (the date was a complete coincidence) I reported here that I had received an email from the human resources department of the company I work for saying “Your baby has been added to Aetna. Let us know if you have any trouble viewing him on their website.” Since I hadn't (to my knowledge)...
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Apr.12.2009
Is it possible to teach humor?
In my "Style in Fiction" course, we came to the subsection of humor. We read George Saunders, Lorrie Moore, Donald Barthelme and had read Amy Hempel. I gave the prerequisite warnings: The forces are against these writers-- an almost, "Go ahead, try to...
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