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Treatment Have self-diagnosed and decided that my lower back pain is in my sacroiliac joint. I’ve got some bum joints. (Oh, hey, that was kind of a pun!) It didn’t bother me much over the weekend but as soon as I sat butt in chair on Monday morn, it was killing me. Even with myContinue reading

Information delivery system Yesterday, the chief of large city bureau for an elite newspaper held up a tattered album cover of a Beatles record in one hand and the current issue of said newspaper in the other. He called them both relics. Nobody buys Beatles albums on vinyl anymore, and hardly anyone listens to itContinue reading

Derivative At one time, that word referred to something other than a work of art too obviously influenced by another. My 11th grade precalculus teacher has died. To the surprise of those who joke that people become journalists because they’re bad at math, I declare proudly that I rocked at calculus. I did pretty wellContinue reading

Oops Guess I shouldn’t leave letterhead in my printer overnight, cus it could be used to print out a portion of someone’s grad school application essay. The grammar in this one isn’t as tight, but the spelling is good. Spell-check probably. Still no name. I was lighting candles in my dreams last night. Using oneContinue reading

Mystic Printer Every once in a while, the printer on my desk interrupts my pensive haiku composing by whirring to life and printing something I didn’t ask it to, presumably something from some other terminal. A few weeks ago I got a couple of pages of a sociology paper. Just now I got a pageContinue reading

On today’s brief snowfall, as seen from the shuttle bus on my way to pick up my graded writing assignment. (I got an A) Flurries in the treesDrifting, hanging like blossomsOblivious me See how my explanation is several syllables longer than my haiku? For some reason, having nothing to do with the writing class I’mContinue reading

Talk to me Sigmund Freud, tell me all about it After Rob left, I reset the alarm for 6:30 so I could watch the local news. I dozed back off with the TV on, and incorporated things like, “If you’re driving south, you could see some snow flurries” into my dreams. But I also dreamedContinue reading

Now I can’t stop Bald eagle soaringWhite head clear among the cloudsPatch of blue peeks through Oops, now it’s goneBright sun, you are such a tease!Blinding me briefly

Morning Haikus Rain, gray and chillyDampening my every dayBut not my spirit *** Broken tree outsideReversing truck, steady beepDecapitated *** Rain falls like diamondsNo sun to make them sparkleWinter never ends Splash. During my walk to lunch, I realized a more glass-half-full version of the last one could go: Rain falls like diamondsNo sun toContinue reading

Latest It did not snow. It was, however, bleeping cold. Still is a bit chilly for my taste. I enjoyed my first observance of a three-day President’s Day weekend since, what, 2001? Unfortunately, Rob was working. Or maybe it’s not unfortunate, as it gave me time to shop and write. And do his laundry.