Category Archive for 'Just for Fun'

Autumn

AUTUMN Today the peace of autumn pervades the world. In the radiant noon, silent and motionless, the wide stillness rests like a tired bird spreading over the deserted fields to all horizons its wings of golden green. Today the thin thread of the river flows without song, leaving no mark on its sandy banks. The […]

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Moutz at (Almost) Midnight

I thought our mouse issue was over. After all, I found little Mickey (or maybe it was Minnie) dead on our carpet one morning last May. But apparently Mickey and Minnie had procreated before they bit the dust because I walk in the door one afternoon in December and notice that the air in the […]

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Le Morte de Mouse

Jane and I are coloring in the dining room. I’m trying to draw the yellow poppy in the vase in front of me. She is drawing her million-and-oneth princess. I hear a strange sound coming from somewhere below my feet, from, in truth, the air return vent. “Sh,” I say to Jane, and we both […]

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