Tag: random musing
member name: Greg Schiller
|
June 28, 2007 07:57 PM EDT --
Critique Welcome
You're Hot!
Ha! That is quite a thing to say!
You are!
It's not polite to tell a stranger on the bus that they are hot.
You're not a stranger.
Why do you say . . .
more
|
|
June 14, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
Finally, Minnesota summer!
I have waited months, through arctic weather and the blink called spring, for a chance to kayak the winding channels, finger islands, and sloughs of the Upper . . .
more
|
|
July 02, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
Didn't see you on the bus yesterday.
Naw, I took the day off; had to go to court.
How come?
Ex-landlord refused to return my damage deposit.
You win?
Slam-dunk.
Good for you.
Typical crap, but . . .
more
|
|
August 18, 2007 03:52 PM EDT --
I love the writing and reporting style of NPR's science correspondent Robert Krulwich. The man has an amazing talent to not only find fascinating topics for his reports, but to . . .
more
|
|
January 18, 2007 01:23 PM EST --
I tend to believe that people confuse "free love" with affordable sex. Love itself can never be free because it costs to love and love not shared equally costs the most.
Unlike the grace offered to . . .
more
|
|
May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
Critique welcome
In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
more
|
|
January 28, 2008 06:25 AM EST --
I bought something the other day I shouldn't have. It was a little thing, a memory chip for my camera, but it came in a large clam-shell package. I needed the chip, but I swore I would . . .
more
|
|
July 14, 2008 01:05 AM EDT --
This afternoon, the missus and I endured an usually long line at the coffee shop.
Our cashier, a fresh young man with crisp tattoos and silver piercings, pecked warily at the register. He seemed skittish . . .
more
|
|
November 21, 2007 06:28 PM EST --
Once upon a time, a wealthy couple lived in a quaint Tudor mansion on the better side of Beverly Hills with their only child, a daughter, upon whom they showered love and the best of everything.
As . . .
more
|
|
December 10, 2007 06:22 AM EST --
San Francisco – The 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals remains mute over banning all use of language in official documents.
“ We see this as a victory” said Ms. Todavía . . .
more
|
|
February 11, 2008 12:02 AM EST --
My brother is looking for a house. A month ago, he handed me a picture of a beautifully restored Victorian for $850,000. He teased "Should I buy it?"
It was the house we grew up . . .
more
|
|
February 18, 2008 08:12 AM EST --
On bitter cold days like we have had this last week, the world locks up and shuts down. Nothing moves that does not have to move and what does move, complains about it. Even the mercury at . . .
more
|
|
February 25, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
I pondered reincarnation the other day.
The reason was simple, I am the notorious procrastinator who neglected to empty the cat box on garbage day. Now both my wife and cat are making . . .
more
|
|
August 25, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
I'm on the outs with my cousin Dave.
I fed his steak to the coyote who haunts the woods where our family holds it summer barbecues. Now Dave is mad at me. He says dieting has turned . . .
more
|
|
September 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
I love me wife. She is my partner. She is my best friend. I rely on her for advice, support and solace, but there are times when I don't like her that much.
This may seem a paradox, but . . .
more
|
|
September 22, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
Obama wants change. McCain wants change. Everyone wants change but me.
It is not so much that I am stuck in the what-is as I am deeply suspicion of the angst that drives - what-if.
The truth is . . .
more
|
|
November 03, 2008 12:06 AM EST --
Last Thursday, I wasted much of the day in quiet desperation.
I started out small, moping over the sinister new howl in my transmission and worked my way up through the hierarchy of daily worries. . . .
more
|
|
January 22, 2007 09:29 AM EST --
I begin my morning commute by waiting. Every morning after dropping my wife off at the bus station, I queue up behind a long line of idling cars. We poise on an incline, brake lights glowing red with impatience, . . .
more
|
|
January 29, 2007 04:07 PM EST --
Last week I broke down and bought my first Lotto ticket. The purchase revealed my naiveté about how these transactions were handled and my fumbling greatly amused the clerk. He was one of these . . .
more
|
|
January 30, 2007 07:52 AM EST --
"So what would we do if we won the Lotto? The jackpot is over $200 million!!"
That was my wife's signal to focus on her rather than on my latest issue of The Economist. She . . .
more
|
|
|
|
