My Song

October 26, 2011

Growing up, we always had musical instruments lying around the house, and it made a big impact on me and Laura. This is a song I wrote when I was about seven. I’m sharing it with you because I think its message is as true today as it was back then. Share this:EmailPrintFacebookTwitter

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Behold, I Show You a Mystery

October 20, 2011

Please familiarize yourself with gouldian finch color variations before reading this.  I would do it for your blog. “As you know,” I have many Gouldian finches.  Well, fifteen, which isn’t really that many in finch terms.  Although I don’t separate them into separate cages by sex, I do try to keep them from hatching out a million [...]

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Big, Bad James Garfunkel Bonanza

October 5, 2011

My friend Hayes has found out what James Garfunkel (subject of a massive That Looks Cozy profile a few months ago) is up to: he’s in a reality show with his trollman-friend. The show’s producers? You guessed it: the nuts here at Cozy! And here is another video Hayes found: After the cozyjump, a video I [...]

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An Encounter

October 2, 2011

This afternoon I took Henry to the Blessing of the Animals service at church.  Many dogs, one cat, and one chicken, named Peachy, were there.  Henry behaved hisself pretty well, but after the service was over, he met a bull mastiff whose gentle face apparently annoyed Henry.  The bull mastiff’s lady said, “Uh-oh.  Your dog [...]

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You Don’t Have to Worry About Me

September 30, 2011

I’m getting enough Abba-Zabas.       Share this:EmailPrintFacebookTwitter

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My New Cookbook

September 29, 2011

I got Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home for my birthday and have been “cooking my way” through it.  It’s very good, if occasionally too creative.  (Oakvale Young Gouda Ice Cream with Vodka-Plumped Cranberries.)  The other night I made her corn ice cream layered with blackberry sauce.  “Verdict:”  excellent though somehow disturbing.  A ten-year-old I served it [...]

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Grim Academic Papers and Textbooks, Ctd

September 27, 2011

From “Scientific Explanations for Near-Death Experiences in Children” (Dutton, 1964): Share this:EmailPrintFacebookTwitter

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A Real-Time Warning

September 21, 2011

I will kill anyone who gets in the way of my bidding on this book:   Clem Clam was very important to me and my siblings when we were little.  This is the only copy of the book left on earth, and it will be mine in 88 minutes IF EVERYONE ELSE KEEPS AWAY.   (Fortunately, I have a thing [...]

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Ad of the day

September 21, 2011

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Why Laura’s Been Away

September 21, 2011

Laura’s been away, if I may speak for her, because she’s been busy getting married: …and is now enjoying her honeymoon with Kevin in Buenos Aires: Her cousin Sally learned to tightrope-walk in Buenos Aires, so Laura thought she’d “give it a go.” Share this:EmailPrintFacebookTwitter

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