Birthday dinner

Nope, none of that sissy stuff I had for my eighteenth birthday – none of those dusty old bottles of 1890 Rothschild port. Hell no. Drunken Noodles at the Bangkok Bistro, and a couple of splits of cheap champagne. Okay, maybe it was a mistake not to have the Rothschild port. Especially of that vintage. Continue reading Birthday dinner

dream.

Just now dreamed of my mother. I can never remember all of a dream. We were in our old house, where I grew up. She was decorating some cookies. She ran out of decorations and went upstairs on an elevator to get some more. I wanted to go too, so I got on the next Continue reading dream.

No birds.

The warblers convinced me to go out and simply be outside, even though I knew that by the time I got there, the birds would be having their midday nap. I heard a fairly busy red-bellied woodpecker, but that was it. And one turtle, a red-eared slider, sunning itself on the shore of the pond. Continue reading No birds.