Kari Neumeyer

Others like me

I wouldn’t have elected to read “Prince of Tides,” were it not this month’s selection for a book club at the library. Since I have no friends of my own in my area (seriously. I socialize exclusively with Rob, and friends and family of Rob), I thought a book group would be a neat wayContinue reading “Others like me”

That’s it?

So I had a root canal. And I’m back at work. I’m a little mystified as to why the root canal procedure was less arduous than the filling removal/temporary crown placement. Isn’t a root canal the thing that people use metaphorically to mean “the worst thing ever”? As in, I’d rather have a root canalContinue reading “That’s it?”

Dilemma

Should I netflix “Prince of Tides” and risk ruining the experience I had with the book? I didn’t get as emotionally wrapped-up as I do with John Irving’s or Wally Lamb’s books, but it is a powerful story, beautifully written. Please excuse me while I look up some of the words that were pre-underlined inContinue reading “Dilemma”

Inside a dog it’s too dark to read

I’m taking Isis to remedial obedience classes. She “failed” her pre-test, and rather than risk failing the real test, we’re going to weekly “tune-up” classes, where we actually get to practice around other dogs. Our obedience school doesn’t encourage dog-on-dog interaction at the basic level, which makes sense to me. It would take too longContinue reading “Inside a dog it’s too dark to read”

World Trade Center: The Movie

Oliver Stone directed this movie? How can that possibly be? It was so clunkily directed. And those flashbacks? Laaa-aame. With respect to the real-life people whose story it is, I found myself wondering why, of all the people who survived or were killed, I was supposed to become emotionally involved with these ones. Then IContinue reading “World Trade Center: The Movie”

And rain will make the flowers grow

Spectacular. We’re looking at another stormy weekend. I do have to get outside at one point, though, to plant the shrubs I found it necessary to mail-order from Ohio. My compulsive online shopping is a story for another time. Rob likes to fall asleep listening to audio books. Which, of course, means he rarely isContinue reading “And rain will make the flowers grow”

Same dog

Two months Five months

The primary concern is the bulb

I’d lived in Washington and worked for a small newspaper about three weeks when my editor asked me if I would cover the first daffodil picking. “You have boots, right?” Thinking she meant steel-toe construction boots, and not rubber barn/field boots, I said yes. With such a high turnover among reporters, it’s smart to sendContinue reading “The primary concern is the bulb”

Addiction

To the left, to the left

…everything I chew with my teeth on the left. What I forgot to mention in the earlier post about my cracked tooth is how ironic it is that I have two cracked teeth on the side of my face that I have been babying for more than two years. Remember my TMJ? While I haveContinue reading “To the left, to the left”