MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'ephemera'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:37 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5182208&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FZfITGAdfhdo%2F Via a link I found at Kottke.org: Soulwire Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5182208 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:05:55 +0100 5182208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159649&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FHnJFRq7tkx0%2F And then it hit me… social media is derailing my life in fifteen minute intervals by distracting me with all the stuff that is already distracting my friends. via Fifteen Minute Intervals by James Shelley. Filed under: electronic life, Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159649 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:01:43 +0100 5159649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159652&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FTTGATvzTnHg%2F Follow @PattiN@PattiNPatti Niehoff No matter how much I write, it still seems like I have a million more words to do before I can get to the end. Maybe there is no end. Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:45:48 +0000 12:45 am via HibariReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159652 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:50:21 +0100 5159652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5140168&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FW9AlLmYBVBw%2F Follow @flavorpill@flavorpillFlavorpill history's ill-fated literary couples http://ow.ly/65soJ 2 minutes ago via HootSuiteReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5140168 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:36:27 +0100 5140168 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5140171&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FG4Z_Lr14qXQ%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5140171 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:03:35 +0100 5140171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5140172&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F3B8WzgLD25k%2F Follow @PattiN@PattiNPatti Niehoff Even though the green on the trees is old by now, still is so lush in the morning. Can't believe #Fall is so close. Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:17:47 +0000 8:17 am via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5140172 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:34:30 +0100 5140172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130983&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FG26IO9DYDaU%2F … You spend more time slapping at mosquitos — and missing — than in getting any writing done. So be it. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130983 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:25:13 +0100 5130983 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5125921&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F_1Pjj49JBow%2F Follow @PattiN@PattiNPatti Niehoff Going to be like trying to ban air — British PM proposes social media ban for rioters – CNN.com http://bit.ly/neLi9W 4 minutes ago via bitlyReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5125921 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:04:27 +0100 5125921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5125922&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FPF6N-BwddT8%2F Follow @hotdogsladies@hotdogsladiesMerlin Mann Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:32:29 +0000 2:32 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5125922 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:34:17 +0100 5125922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5118918&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FODHE3uEfEWw%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5118918 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:32:42 +0100 5118918 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096894&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fkzuh4KI7a7I%2F Image via Wikipedia Digging through high school memories: the more I dig, the more there is to find. I am finding memories of when Patty Hearst was kidnapped during our senior year. I have no idea why I am remembering that so strongly along with all of the other memories from then. And a protest from my mind: 1974 is not that far in the past! No! It can’t be! Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: high school, Patty Hearst (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096894 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:54:19 +0100 5096894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096896&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FE2stQ5qLqes%2F At the moment, I am not cooking anything so if our kitchen smells of anything, it is of the pot of orange-flavored tea that I just brewed. But when I am cooking something I hate to turn the fan on; I want the cooking smells throughout the house. It means that life is being lived in here. People are moving in and out and wanting their dinners. The house that I grew up in was as sterile as any layout you see in Architectural Digest. The furniture in the living room was just so with all of the silk embroidery pointing in the same direction. The knicknacks were dusted and shiny and nobody went into that room even during a party. It was a way to get to another room, rather like a hallway that took up a quarter of the ground floor. A smaller percentage of the ground floor was taken up by the for... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096896 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:32:10 +0100 5096896 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5096898&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FRtYAL1Ykk1o%2F As  break today from searing heat, we get tremendous thunderstorms to wake us up. This is not the sort of thunderstorm like we have in Colorado that will leave the sky when it is through. This is an Ohio thunderstorm which will leave when it feels like doing so, and not a moment before. Anthropomorphising Thunderstorms gets you nowhere in real life, but it amuses the brain while the storm lingers. The trip to the dentist for teeth cleaning suddenly takes on biblical proportions: I voyage through thunder and torrential rain to have my teeth cleaned. Maybe I should read Job to get a bit of perspective on this thing. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Colorado, Heat index, Ohio, Thunderstorm (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5096898 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:40:05 +0100 5096898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5086472&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitepebble.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2Fcabin-dogs-new-morning.mp3 Cabin Dogs: “New Morning (Bob Dylan cover)” Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5086472 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:14:15 +0100 5086472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069740&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F--54-e7C9fo%2F There is a parking lot near where we live, right in the middle of several businesses we patronize. It’s run by someone who, so the apocryphal stories go, thinks that the way to domination over the local business community is to watch the lot like a hawk, and tow anyone who hasn’t paid up right away. Well, I found out that the stories are not apocryphal. Yes, I’m whining. But the lot does stay near empty all day, with parked cars littering the streets just past its boundaries. Maybe domination over/in the local business community does not involve harassing your customers. End of whine. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Parking lot (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069740 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:38:12 +0100 5069740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062443&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FxlKl5aS1Gsw%2F Follow @LachJeRot@LachJeRotLach je rot! INSTALLING SUMMER….. ███████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 44% DONE. Installation failed. 404 error: Season not found. #Summer #lachjerot Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:51:20 +0000 6:51 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: asides, Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062443 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:34:53 +0100 5062443 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5062444&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJIFLFtSsjak%2F The problem with summer is that the day starts too early. I am up and ready to go, but the people that I have to call are not — or if they are, they are doing so in greatest secrecy. Going back to sleep is out of the question for me; Satchel the Cat has a different view on that, though. I’m just lucky he is not falling asleep on anything important. Too much writing to do. Yes, I know it looks like I am getting no writing whatsoever done, but you’ll just have to take my word for it. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5062444 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:18:37 +0100 5062444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057889&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fzr0HfJmVrqA%2F Follow @PattiN@PattiNPatti Niehoff I hate the weather. #swackett says: Partly sunny, hot and humid & low of 74°F tonight for #Cincinnati swackett.com via @sunnyandcool 2 minutes ago via Tweet ButtonReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057889 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:36:48 +0100 5057889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5051093&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FePijHP7RxK4%2F Jet lag. Back home now in Cincinnati to the regular routine, which I only vaguely remember. Oh, yes, Starbucks. Oh, right, lunch at the Rusty Bucket. And Pilates with my friend Julie just now. I think that the air conditioning at SBUX is going to have a deleterious effect on my wobbly post-Pilates muscles. But it’s already in the nineties outside, and air conditioning ceases to be a luxury. Related articles Pilates Exercise of the Month – Bend & Stretch with Flex-Band (pilatesintegration.wordpress.com) Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Fitness, Pilates (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5051093 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:40:13 +0100 5051093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036502&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FcSdo1Wz60dw%2F Follow @PattiN@PattiNPatti Niehoff Harry Potter vanquishes Sarah Palin!! | Sarah Palin Documentary Premiere: Film Opens To Nearly Empty Audience http://huff.to/mYMzOD @myEN about 5 hours ago via bitlyReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Harry Potter, Sarah Palin (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036502 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:00:20 +0100 5036502 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5029010&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fjn0N5FSSgHk%2F Follow @owillis@owillisOliver Willis as i watch uk talk about "press regulation" after #notw scandal i think how important it is we have a law that stops that talk in its tracks about 3 hours ago via webReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5029010 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:01:39 +0100 5029010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5029012&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F0OtI9hVDSfE%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5029012 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:51:58 +0100 5029012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5029013&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FLACDXUBR6ks%2F Was reading Jaron Lanier‘s You Are Not A Gadget. Eyes skimmed the sentence, “The criteria that guide science …” and misread it as “The crickets that guide science …” I wish it were crickets. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Filed under: books, Ephemera Tagged: Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5029013 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:52:31 +0100 5029013 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008548&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FwCBsl7x-4a8%2F Little Green Footballs – Orlando Fergusons Map of a Square and Stationary Earth. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008548 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:25:50 +0100 5008548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008549&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FiYtmQ52WISM%2F … Who is hoping to attract some spare change by singing “All Along the Watchtower” while accompanying himself on the ukulele: It’s not having the effect you were hoping for. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: All Along the Watchtower, music, Ukulele (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008549 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:56:09 +0100 5008549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984642&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fk87nnwC6v1g%2F Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: SoundCloud (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984642 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:36:24 +0100 4984642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4976141&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.videopress.com%2FHZYPGyw8%2Fimg_0743_hd.mp4 Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4976141 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:00:38 +0100 4976141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4976143&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FoeS-0L-N_Ro%2F We have, here in Boulder, an excellent tea shop, shelves full of just about anything other than coffee that you’d want to steep in a pot of hot water. They have several varieties of Pu-erh tea. This is the kind that comes in large, Frisbee-shaped cakes, compressed that way to stand the rigors of traveling back to Venice with Marco Polo. Milder than I thought it would be, not as smoky. Hoping that drinking it will convince me to stop trying to write and to go to sleep like a normal person. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: China, Pu-erh tea, tea, Tea house (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4976143 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:32:39 +0100 4976143 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968808&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FzMxZ8hNJM0g%2F Boarding the plane and finding my seat. The man in the aisle seat in front of me gets up to let his seat mate in, and he’s got this cute patterned sweater on and I’m thinking to myself, “What the hell kind of man wears a patterned knit sweater on an airplane in public?” and then he turns around and I see it’s not a man. The turquoise earring should have been a dead giveaway, though Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968808 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:17:52 +0100 4968808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953274&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F2ZLzFrYzvfQ%2F . Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953274 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:48:54 +0100 4953274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934724&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F3ZfM93NvNjg%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934724 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:38:28 +0100 4934724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934728&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FGoWlkgYGd_s%2F One woman’s crazy is another woman’s life: that is the relationship my mother and I had, in a nutshell, a very dry and twisted nutshell with not enough space. A walnut shell, divided into compartments. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934728 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:08:57 +0100 4934728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862836&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FpXs8MC17aXM%2F … via Largeheartedboy.com Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862836 Tue, 24 May 2011 01:38:54 +0100 4862836 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4853108&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FcYnaLBFUt3U%2F Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver via Novel First Sentences – Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have…. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: qotd (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4853108 Mon, 23 May 2011 15:58:54 +0100 4853108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848113&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FVfjduf6BvXs%2F The sun is out today, but I’m afraid to mention it in case the clouds come back. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848113 Fri, 20 May 2011 17:18:15 +0100 4848113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829213&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FG8fc_vOoUY8%2F Image via Wikipedia Yet another gray day. Satchel curled up beside me and the laptop and the Grande Peppermint Mocha from an unnamed prominent coffee chain named after a character in Moby Dick. Literature has the strangest effect on people and society. I think that Herman Melville would be both pleased and appalled at the coffee chain’s success. I can’t quite see him drinking a latte, though. Now I’m going to have that image following me throughout the day. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: coffee, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Starbucks (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4829213 Mon, 16 May 2011 13:53:59 +0100 4829213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829215&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FpAnm0wW0a04%2F Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O’Connor Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor, qotd (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4829215 Mon, 16 May 2011 13:07:50 +0100 4829215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4821095&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FLTAEuUI-iT0%2F I spent a lot of yesterday going up to Columbus and back with Betsy and Bunny [her mom] and Betsy’s friend Megan to get Betsy’s wedding dress. It is very pretty — strapless and with curved layers of ruffles that I don’t know how to describe. She was looking at veils too but don’t know if she’s made any decisions on it. The dress hangs in my cedar closet right by the box that contains my own dress which I haven’t looked at since my wedding day. I am afraid that it is still full of mud. I can only hope the cleaners were able to deal with it. On top of the wedding dress box is my yellow and white formal evening dress for my debut party, and the white dress for the Bachelor’s Cotillion is hanging on the rod. Betsy’s future is hanging out there ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4821095 Fri, 13 May 2011 12:59:10 +0100 4821095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813612&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F8Hu1WxoSuBw%2F I have mentioned our local coyotes before, I think. But their presence always surprises me: this is not the Wild West. This is Ohio. They’re howling down the hill now over unknown things. They love this particular area because one of our neighboring couples has miniature horses and donkeys as domestic pets. They have two miniature horses and one miniature donkey. There is a tiny stable in their back yard, which must be well-secured since the animals haven’t become coyote food yet. What do you do with such pets? Can they really snuggle with you on the couch as you watch television? Will your floors be permanently damaged with years of tiny hoof-marks? How does house-breaking work? The coyotes are fascinated and make forays into our area most nights. It’s the lure of... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813612 Tue, 10 May 2011 14:23:44 +0100 4813612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803438&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F-qSWMju9fj8%2F I don’t know how dad got from the Aquinas of his youth to the philosophy summed up in one of his favorite sayings — “Everybody’s got to be somewhere” — but get there he did. Throughout my childhood, he said this frequently. To my mother looking up a phone number. To his friends, wondering where yet another someone was and what they were up to now. “Like a greased pig”: this he said of everyone who moved out of his grasp, who got away, who refused to be held down or held back. Of children playing tag. Of Mom’s little Lhasa Apso, running away from her to do another crazy fur-flattening circle around the lawn, running for her life and the joy of it. “New potatoes with their jackets on”: said about the eponymous side dish every time he saw Mom fishing them out of the pot ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803438 Mon, 09 May 2011 14:56:02 +0100 4803438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803439&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fj_qPPFN72-g%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803439 Sun, 08 May 2011 16:19:29 +0100 4803439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4795020&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FXsvFl6tGCOg%2F . Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4795020 Fri, 06 May 2011 15:21:28 +0100 4795020 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775552&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fvj_uNj63ZR8%2F Just another picture of the chihuahua before I turn the computer off for the night. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775552 Tue, 03 May 2011 02:38:54 +0100 4775552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775553&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJnN1CPpIbXw%2F The secret life of libraries | The Guardian via The Mercantile Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775553 Tue, 03 May 2011 02:13:01 +0100 4775553 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4771314&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F_G5BZP98ESw%2F This makes sense if you think about it. Many word processors and text editors are out there now that are geared to the person writing a novel or a screen play — actually I think there are about three programs as well as any number of Word templates that are geared to screenwriters alone. There’s just this pernicious belief that if you have a certain writing program, that it will automatically make you a better writer. The books will just pour out of you and all of your problems will be solved. They won’t be solved, but they will be forgotten about temporarily while you move your story texts into the new program and get everything formatted just so, and fill out the little character templates and the little location templates. But then you won’t be getting any new writin... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4771314 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:01:35 +0100 4771314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4768197&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FjH-y7RsXoc0%2F Pried my eyes open around six this morning, remembering that there was something I wanted to do, or see. Fell back to sleep with the cat. Only remembered to turn on the TV at seven, and got to see the exit from the Abbey. This seems to have been quite enough of the Royal wedding for me. I’m sure I’ll be bombarded with clips of the event on CNN and the like. So here I am, one of a proper subset of people in America drinking tea right now: that proper subset comprising people who are drinking tea now because they always drink tea in the morning and who are not in the least pretending to be British for a day. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: CNN, Kate Middleton, Prince William of Wales, Royal wedding, Television, Westminster Abbey (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4768197 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:56:08 +0100 4768197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4758942&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F9QHqgAWy_RY%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4758942 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:41:35 +0100 4758942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747824&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FdUziDdZPVFM%2F NB: half a bag of popcorn is an unwise choice for breakfast. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: breakfast (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747824 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:54:24 +0100 4747824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4744907&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FdD_OGnS0tHk%2F I am sitting in Starbuck’s and actually getting a bit of stuff done with all of the sugar and caffeine running through my veins after two mocha frappuccinos. But I think of the items that I saw in the refrigerated case that one waits by until it is one’s turn to talk to the barista. No, I am not referring to the food items, but rather to one of the words printed on their little designation signs: Artisan. Come on. Aren’t we making that word redundant through overuse? Are we trying to pretend that the little sandwiches are not made in some food preparation facility and brought here by a truck? And it’s just egg and cheese and bacon and a roll. This is not difficult enough to require a master-level of craft. Springing to mind, though it was not printed on a card i... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4744907 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:47:42 +0100 4744907 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734489&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FrwadQqLC_eM%2F If you have sinus problems when the oak pollen comes out, do not compound it by stuffing yourself with six caramels. At least I learned something new today. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Pollen (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734489 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:52:01 +0100 4734489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4720044&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FmZ8CBC6JcPo%2F . Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: NIST (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4720044 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:26:18 +0100 4720044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4714967&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FPCfXGsR1ZbU%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4714967 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:51:22 +0100 4714967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704875&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FnAdpUPh-rUE%2F @PattiNPatti Niehoff #family definition http://amzn.com/k/2CNTOY0V4JHRE #Kindle about 1 hour ago via KindleReplyRetweetFavorite Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Everything Is Illuminated, family, Jonathan Safran Foer, twitter (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704875 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:08:41 +0100 4704875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696881&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F98J5-VDPElU%2F   Going to stuff myself with a brownie and write about my tragic childhood. Was it really tragic? No. I just want the brownie.   Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: brownie, chocolate, Chocolate brownie (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696881 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:59:30 +0100 4696881 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4693463&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FCWpyLwC1NEM%2F Just got a notice that my cousin’s mother-in-law died; she had been sick for a very long time. The obituary mentioned that she had been a great-grandmother, which makes my cousin a grandmother, and she is only ten years older than I am. Time marching on, and all that. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Grandparent, Mother-in-law (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4693463 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:55:19 +0100 4693463 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4677037&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FqFzjtuOiCgg%2F . Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4677037 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:39:24 +0100 4677037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642900&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FYYlk_C4y9xs%2F Bob Marley is telling me now to “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.” He tells me this at roughly the same time every single weekday that I sit in this particular Starbuck’s. We have here a music strategy designed to get those of us who were actually alive during Marley’s lifetime to associate all that Jamaican goodness with sitting here drinking hot beverages and messing around on the free WiFi. I do love Bob Marley. However, this music strategy is starting to wear on the nerves. I realize consciously I am on the receiving end of a corporate strategy. It is working, and therefore I feel the need to resist it. What would the SBUX people do if we really took Bob Marley’s advice from the song, and stood up for our right to a change in music programm... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642900 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:16:17 +0100 4642900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4626989&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F1Xw5X3jbosM%2F … Here in Starbuck’s, early afternoon is always given over to reggae, always either Bob Marley or one of his close friends. I would love to figure out how to make a complaint about this. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4626989 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:11:28 +0100 4626989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4606007&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJ4h-hSj7KRY%2F How to Celebrate Bob Dylan’s Birthday | eHow.com. Often referred to as the “most important voice of his generation,” Bob Dylan epitomized the free, folk sound of the ’60s. Celebrate the Tambourine Man‘s birthday on May 24th with some down-home revelry of your own.   Difficulty: Easy Instructions things you’ll need: Harmonicas CD Players VCRs Bob Dylan CD’s Bob Dylan Videos 1 Write a private birthday card addressed to Robert Zimmerman, Bob Dylan’s original birth name. 2 Play a little harmonica in tribute to the man who made a name with this unique instrument. 3 Break out your CD collection and play Bob’s first hit original album from beginning to end. “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” was release... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4606007 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:40:58 +0100 4606007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575215&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FErawGHLgJFo%2F I like Simon’s Cat way too much to resist posting the latest one. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Animated cartoon, cat, Pets, Simon's Cat, youtube (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575215 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:02:35 +0100 4575215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560516&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FTs7jNe6ns7g%2F @ByronKatieByron Katie Exactly when does the end of the world happen? It just did, silly. 6 minutes ago via HootSuiteRetweetReply Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560516 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:36:35 +0100 4560516 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4552132&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FarhnHrlf5D0%2F At my birthday dinner tonight, Katie Laur and a couple of friends sang. I am now officially 55 — double nickels, as my cousin Stella says. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: birthday, friends, music (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4552132 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:41:03 +0100 4552132 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4549904&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FzagKpembND4%2F I think to myself: It’d be great if I had more pictures on the blog. (5 minutes passes) I think to myself: Oh, I’d better get out the camera again. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Cameras, Photography, thought (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4549904 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:33:03 +0100 4549904 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4478015&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fw1BUSPwlelU%2F It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4478015 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:27:56 +0100 4478015 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4450471&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FUldP_JZA1cY%2F It’s taken me a while to figure out, but now I know how to post pictures to this new theme. Prepare to be flooded. Or not. I don’t take all that many presentable pictures. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4450471 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:35:22 +0100 4450471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445975&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F9YbyoQmL32A%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445975 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:18:58 +0100 4445975 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445977&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FdnYvxeK6ag8%2F Got out for a bit this afternoon, before the game. Walnut Street — posting this mostly to test the image format posts on this blog theme. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445977 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:37:54 +0100 4445977 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445978&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FT3CF3_Gjgko%2F Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445978 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:52:56 +0100 4445978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445979&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FbIeOu4kJiCs%2F Okay, I did not watch the whole Super Bowl, but I did see the end, and a Kim Kardashian commercial. Since the Bengals were not going to be in the competition, not in anyone’s imagination, I did not really care who won, but after a short chat with my son, decided to be a cheesehead. I like the hats. Now I get to bask in the winner’s glory. Football is pretty good stuff. Now I can get back to the non-football activities, like watching Masterpiece Theater. Packers Fans “Feelin’ Fly Like a Cheesehead” (patspapers.com) Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Cheesehead, Green Bay Packers, Kim Kardashian, Pittsburgh Steelers, Sports, Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLV (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445979 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:47:52 +0100 4445979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419373&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJG_61fv2Evc%2F You know you’re in Boulder when … The city pays for tiny little bulldozers to clear the snow from the bike trails, and the bike trails are cleared before the regular roads are. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Boulder, Boulder Colorado, Cycling (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419373 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:49:19 +0100 4419373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419374&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FDWjuECl1RfA%2F You know you’re in Boulder when …  men walk around outside in shirtsleeves when it’s 12° and snowing. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Boulder, Boulder Colorado, men, snow (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419374 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:49:11 +0100 4419374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399767&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FxM4JCGuedSw%2F Image via Wikipedia Because I read Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese last summer, and loved it so much that I insist on dragging it across country with me, just to have it close by, it has had at least one unexpected effect on me: namely, my cooking. The book is not about cooking; food is mentioned in the due course of things, but no more than you might expect. One thing mentioned many times: berbere. Berbere is not a spice, but a mix of spices. It is heavily used in Ethiopian cooking, especially in a common chicken stew called doro wat. And so, I wanted some. I looked in the ethnic cooking sections of grocery stores both regular and organic. I looked online and in spice and cookware stores: no berbere. Nobody even to tell me how to pronounce the word, since I know no Amharic. But lo ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399767 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:58:10 +0100 4399767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4355875&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FbJUyTyzeTlk%2F My theater experience consists of one show: The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, by J. M. Barrie. Yes, he wrote many more things besides Peter Pan. Seventh grade, the middle school plays, a series of one-act things. I was Mrs. Mickleham, and it floors me that I was able to remember that much about the thing. I was the only seventh-grader in the play; the rest were eighth-graders, the Big Kids. I was deeply impressed with myself at the time, and thought that this was incontrovertible proof that I had great acting talent. That lasted for the run of the show, about two showings’ worth. I enjoyed being on stage, but found no great desire to repeat the experience. My husband, though, almost lived in the theater department during college. Even today he can do a wonderful rendition of the balcony... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4355875 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:16:57 +0100 4355875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4338209&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fqw0rbJ26UmU%2F In the middle of January, like now, it is very easy to get into the mindset that this gray weather is going to last forever. Since I am a (very) amateur birder, though, I also know that the spring migration is about to start probably within the next couple of weeks. The birds won’t hit our continent for a while, though. Entirely self -propelled animals. Actually, come to think of it, humans are the only animals that can travel in non-self-propelled ways. Still have respect, though, for flocks of millions of tiny birds propelling themselves across the Gulf of Mexico to summer in our back yards. Renewed resolutions to haul myself around the thickets of Boulder Creek or up in the mountains near Nederland. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Bird, birds, Birdwatching, Boulder Creek, Gulf Coast... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4338209 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:16:08 +0100 4338209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4331191&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FjJURW0dWUDg%2F It is snowing, and the current wisdom is, of course, that we’re all gonna die and freeze solid and we won’t be found until spring melts the last snow drifts. This only encourages me to go out. Send help if you don’t hear from me by March… Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: doom, postaday2011, snow (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4331191 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:52:45 +0100 4331191 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4331192&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FzgQ2m7M5lBQ%2F Peter’s puppies and I spent some quality time together this afternoon while I waited for the delivery men to bring by his new bed. What to remember while buying new furniture: make sure that it can fit through your staircase. The fact that you have a staircase does not mean that everything can make the journey upstairs. I suppose that it does no good to reminisce about the days when my son was small enough for me to scoop up in my arms, or when he needed me to choose his clothes and help get him into them. Or when he was too young to care for his pets without help. Especially when he was too young to get a French Bulldog puppy that is given to gassiness. My son is turning into a responsible adult. They (whoever they are) always said that time passes quickly. They were right. Filed un... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4331192 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:33:10 +0100 4331192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4327043&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FqaT5RB8YsA8%2F Today I discovered a massive amount of information — massive definitely in comparison with what I had known up till now — about my own grandparents. I discovered this information this afternoon while wandering through the Museum’s Wedded Perfection exhibit, consisting of wedding dresses of various past times. My grandmother’s wedding dress is among them, and is stunning to see. With any luck I will remember to paste it into this post at the end. Today, I read the book that accompanies the exhibition and found out: not only were my grandparents married in 1906, but on May 26th. Her father and her uncles ran a slaughterhouse; pigs, mostly. She was at least 26 — I couldn’t do the mental arithmetic on the dates. She was tiny, much more so than I remember, but then havin... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4327043 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:33:35 +0100 4327043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322656&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F96qVFFc_gpA%2F Image via Wikipedia In the Seventies, when I was in school at Vanderbilt, I took my now-husband to see Muddy Waters at the Exit Inn. The concert was held in a room that was rather crowded, to make an understatement. Tables were jammed in close enough that we were almost in contact with our neighbors. I was quite surprised that Muddy Waters himself, and his band members, were able to walk through part of the crowd to reach the stage. And thus I was introduced to the blues. I can’t remember the set list. I do remember Muddy himself sitting there on his stool, adding a note here and there to the music, Buddha-like.   Filed under: Ephemera, music Tagged: Blues, Muddy Waters, music, postaday2011 (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322656 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:06:29 +0100 4322656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314187&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F60cTJA3478E%2F There are great numbers of places and times that I would like to visit. The only two that come to mind right now: 1: watching an original production of a Shakespeare play. 2: my first date with my husband. I am sure that as soon as I hit the post button, I shall think of five or six items on the list, but these sound quite adequate for now. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Literature, postaday2011, William Shakespeare (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314187 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:53:04 +0100 4314187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309814&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FXEAskHHF2sg%2F I am eavesdropping overhearing my husband talk with the plumber. The husband mentions that he has been a customer of the plumber’s since the current plumber’s grandfather ran the business. This is much much longer than I have been around. The husband also recently remarked that our dish rack by the sink in the kitchen is of equal vintage. Sudden upwelling of hope that I at least outlast the dish rack. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: dish rack, plumber, Plumbing, postaday2011 (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309814 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:17:09 +0100 4309814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4305061&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F1kcKTROiZPA%2F Image via Wikipedia I have finished Mary Karr‘s Lit, minutes before Sally and Other Patti came over for our usual Movie Night. I usually don’t use the word “harrowing” when talking about — well, anything — but that is an adequate adjective here. There is probably a better adjective, but I cannot come up with one on the spur of the moment. I loved the book. It also exhausted me. Her dealing with her own demons got a few of mine to waken a small bit. However, I would read the book again in a second if I did not already have her first memoir, The Liar’s Club, winging its way to me from Amazon, and MK’s friend and mentor’s book — Tobias Wolff‘s This Boy’s Life — sitting on the table next to me, about to be pounced on in turn. Much ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4305061 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:59:30 +0100 4305061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302957&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F39oVD2kOpoo%2F Wandering around the house this afternoon dragging around a chihuahua attached to my foot — Peter is away for New Year’s and left her in our care and she loves to attack my feet as I walk — I thought (among many other things, mostly to do with chihuahuas) that it would be lovely to get to posting more often here. To that end, post-a-day: it seems to be the new experiment here on WordPress.com. So I shall give it a go. Current reading: Lit, by Mary Karr. Autobiography done well. And her prose flows so effortlessly that I shall have it either to encourage my own writing or as a target of my frustration. At least it shall give me something to do as I ponder up entries for this place. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: chihuahua, Lit, Mary Karr, New Year, postaday2011 (Source: white pebbl... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302957 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:21:04 +0100 4302957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253398&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F00EVeCPcBjs%2F [picture taken while waiting for the taxi to arrive] An extremely uneventful flight to Cincinnati from Denver. It takes a journey back home for us to encounter snow. The fluffy snow in the driveway makes me cold by default, even though the house is at its usual comfortable temperature. The animals were overjoyed to see us: Sophie almost exploded with barking and excitement. Satchel meowed enough to get me to finally give him some food, even though I told him that it was not Cat Snack Time. His training is strong: every time a human enters the house through the front door, Satchel is supposed to get fed. He has no problem with any of the internal logic, or external logic, of this. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Cincinnati, Denver, travel (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253398 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:16:48 +0100 4253398 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253399&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FxKDfmJqIZEY%2F @Pepamint83  Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles Schultz #quote #fact about 1 hour ago via webRetweetReply Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253399 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:12:30 +0100 4253399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4238096&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FeDil6INMzW8%2F How did I manage to find a place that had deep-fried Snickers for dessert? Filed under: Ephemera, food (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4238096 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:54:43 +0100 4238096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233366&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FsasuebJzHUk%2F I was just skimming through Twitter, as I unfortunately do, and came across several notices or quotes or references to alleged “spiritual guides” (aka “con men“) who offer guidance for the soul in bits and pieces of 140 characters or less. These con men, as I shall hereafter refer to them in blog postings — except in the instances where they are con women — all have names in languages and traditions that are not what they grew up in. I’ve been guilty of this sort of thing myself. An allegedly Zen practitioner once gave me a Japanese Zen name, but I can’t remember what it was. I even once had a Hebrew name which was so freaking silly that I ain’t gonna mention it here. No sir. Not even if you ask. I dumped the Hebrew name long ago, along with th... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233366 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:38:50 +0100 4233366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214409&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FCuijbjAQ3MU%2F @parisreviewThe Paris Review One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable, not by falsehood, but by clear, precise confrontation. – Richard Wilbur 23 minutes ago via webRetweet - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214409 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:34:48 +0100 4214409 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4200702&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fiuu1LPwhNe0%2F @thetearoomsThe Tea Rooms I was wrong. The active ingredient in dry-scalp shampoos is not psilocybin. It's salicyclic acid. An understandable mistake. about 19 hours ago via TweetDeckRetweet - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4200702 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:45:22 +0100 4200702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197301&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F7WdNv9hDsLo%2F I have decided that the Trident is my new favorite coffee house. They are even very open about their lack of knowledge about tea. I asked for a pot of Assam. There were two canisters of it — the young man behind the counter showed them both to me. “I think this one here’s a little darker.” He looked at the canisters again, and said, “But I don’t really know anything about tea.” I chose the tea from the larger canister. Thus I silently admit my own tea ignorance. Oh well… Anyone for $2,160 Tea? (blogs.wsj.com) Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Assam, Beverages, Coffeehouse, food, tea (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197301 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:53:29 +0100 4197301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197302&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F6h7HpNt91xs%2F Graeter’s black raspberry chip Chocolate. Vanilla goes with everything, and therefore is a classic of sorts. But it’s been a classic by default of being only there as some sort of structure to display the banana slices and chocolate sauce upon. Chocolate: it has its own presence. Avoid the chips — they overwhelm. Avoid the nuts — they break your nice new dental veneers. Plain chocolate is enough. And now, I have to go figure out why there is none in the house. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: chocolate, ice cream, vanilla (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197302 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:36:24 +0100 4197302 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139426&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fld8oQb6OyhI%2F So I have gotten over my sulk about the country’s midterm election results by comforting myself that most of the craziest did not get elected. I will keep a stern watch on Rand Paul, I tell myself, and start blogging as soon as he starts frothing at the mouth or something. That should not take long, so I am fortifying myself with a peppermint mocha at Starbuck’s. Another thing helping me out of my sulk is to immerse myself in the Rome of two thousand years ago. Robert Graves’ excellent I, Claudius arrived in the mail from Amazon.com two days ago. I can spend my time kvetching about people already dead. And it’s a real honest paper book, as well. I, Claudius is not available in electronic format yet, and I find myself oddly cheered by that. A stack of paper feels goo... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139426 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:58:19 +0100 4139426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119525&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fww5pykcwzrk%2F This morning, we went to the Cincinnati Art Museum to see their new exhibit of wedding dresses. My grandmother’s dress is one of them, and I got to take a good picture of it, defying (with the curator’s permission) the guard’s no-photo policy. Here it is, from 1906… Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Cincinnati Art Museum, Clothing, Dress, Formal Wear, Museums, Wedding ceremony participants, Wedding dress (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119525 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:42:44 +0100 4119525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036882&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fzn0jtEz-4OM%2F It seems that, regardless of how late you stayed up to read books and type ad nauseam in your little electronic journal, morning still arrives at exactly the time specified by those who study and work in celestial mechanics. I picture all those who study celestial mechanics (a type of mathematician that studies how planets and stars and comets go around and around and around and…) to be dressed in their own special coveralls, first names embroidered on patches above their hearts, and sprinkled with stardust. Or comet-dust or dark matter, if you have no overly-romantic bent. Now there I go again… what did I mean to say? Good morning! I am off to enjoy my tea. Morning tea, just brewing in the Bauhaus glass pot Comet and Earth to Have Rare Close Encounter (space.com) How Halley&... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036882 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:39:00 +0100 4036882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4031438&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FO0qUZvpkxuQ%2F Yes, I know we had the first official day of Autumn several days ago at the Autumn equinox. I could point out to you where we were, then, on the analemma that you used to see on old maps and globes, but which they don’t include any longer. But I am quite reluctant this year to see the summer end, and so put the change of seasons out of mind until this weekend when the temperature dropped and seemed likely to stay down for the next four months or so. Yes, this happens every year. I should be used to it by now. Take deep breaths, etc. But the cold has officially set in now, as well as the cloud cover which should last us well into February. Gonna write my way through it. At least the winter solstice is not too terribly far away. Consolation through blogging. That’s the trick. Fil... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4031438 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:00:39 +0100 4031438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3938469&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F68I-X8XVGx0%2F Around 10:30 this morning, a large forest fire broke out near here in an area called Fourmile Canyon. It’s heading away from where we are, as far as I can tell from the news reports. Of course, I had to take a few pictures. That’s the smoke from the fire coming up behind the Front Range. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3938469 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:24:55 +0100 3938469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3933230&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FFoeRgzfFTY0%2F Image via Wikipedia WiFi in Boulder is a wondrous thing. Not only is it omnipresent and often open, the networks’ names themselves are often amusing, or at least different. Just found a network at this sitting named The Nihilists. Unfortunately, it is password protected. I may never know why it’s named what it is. I feel so pedestrian, merely being on the Kitchen Guests network. My Favorite Place in the World: Boulder (white-pebble.net) Ignite Boulder 12 Thursday (andrewhy.de) Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Boulder Colorado, getting online, restaurant, The Kitchen, Wi-Fi (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3933230 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:21:52 +0100 3933230 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3929425&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fcy636Ihl5sw%2F The air is lighter and cleaner here. I feel healthy just walking down to my favorite coffee house. Actually, my favorite coffee house here is one of about four different ones around here. Five, maybe. Everyone has a favorite. The plains intersect with the mountains right here. I can drive for ten minutes into the Front Range and be a thousand feet higher than I am sitting here in our home. Two environments — plains and mountains — and several different coffee houses. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Boulder, Colorado, favorite place, home (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3929425 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:50 +0100 3929425 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3915241&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FXCgOJthNhTM%2F For an afternoon of reading on the porch, I seem to need a lot of stuff… Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: porch, reading (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3915241 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:21:46 +0100 3915241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3911840&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FyGGU5iGEtq4%2F chatty cathy My earliest memory is of getting a brand new Chatty Cathy doll for Christmas. I was fascinated by her ability to speak, and to randomize her lines, so that I could not predict what she would say the next time that I pulled the cord on the back of her neck. I loved that thing. The last I saw of it, the doll was looking a bit bedraggled and worse for the wear. It disappeared roughly around the time that I got one of the first Barbie dolls as a gift. Next Christmas? Birthday? Can’t remember. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Barbie, Chatty Cathy, doll, plinky, Toys and Games (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3911840 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:54:59 +0100 3911840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3903097&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FzvhwsnVI0bU%2F Everything looks better in the morning, even the previous night. However, the previous night looked pretty good anyways. This is the sort of pretentious blather that my mind runs through when it is waking itself up, which it is attempting to do so right now. It is helped along by a mocha frappuccino; I suppose that the first bits of caffeine are hitting the brain-blood barrier right now as I type. The crickets are still running on, though their enthusiasm is much less in the mornings than in the night. I find myself worrying about how exhausted they must get with singing 24 hours a day, but in a few months, they will all be dead anyway, from the cold. On that cheery thought, I will go and try to make something out of the aforementioned morning. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: arts, Brain, Ca... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3903097 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:08:45 +0100 3903097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3896053&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F0pCAnoSSxyQ%2F Well, I am getting the poems, many of them, nicely settled into their new home on a night kitchen. The ones that are already here in the “my poems” section of the blog will stay here as well. Poems can bilocate. That is something that is fascinating to me this early in the morning. Yes, I know it’s just past nine, but these things are relative. The humidity and pollen in the air combine to sap my energy. But what I also meant to say is this: my new poems, the ones that I am creating now, go over to a night kitchen and will likely not be found on this blog. There’s a new one now. Go see. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: blog, haiku, poems (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3896053 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:22:17 +0100 3896053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862149&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FsA1uWDHDNtI%2F Am I allowed to speak of it? My life. I was always assured by my mother that discussing my life with others was not only rude but forbidden. Regardless of my own reasons for speaking, she told me that it was certain that anyone else would think I was being snobbish and aloof. It was a large house, an empty house, filled with only one child and that was me. Our house was one of only a very few houses that my grandfather had allowed to be built on the vast tracts of Ohio farmland near Cincinnati that he had bought at the beginning of the depression in the early 1930’s. The house that he had built for himself and my grandmother was in the style of an Argentinian ranch house, complete with a turret on top of the roof that gave a 360° view of the surrounding countryside and of the Ohio River... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862149 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:16:59 +0100 3862149 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862150&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F3Llfpl2z9L8%2F This past spring, I myself, an Apple lover from 1982, ditched my iPhone as well in favor of an original Droid. I am also quite happy with the thing, and have no plans to go back. One thing I have found out is that several of the most desirable iPhone app companies are porting their apps over to the Android operating system: Doodle Jump (yah, a life necessity, that), Gowalla & Foursquare, iBird (Mitchell Waite group), Kindle, Epicurious, and Pandora — just to list the few I personally have run into in the Android Market. I am a certified Apple fanboy. I currently own a MacBook Pro and an iPad. I am a former owner of an iPhone. While the iPhone is possibly the coolest phone on the market, it doesn’t do what a phone is supposed to do:make calls. After about 16 months of dropping ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862150 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:19:01 +0100 3862150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3854703&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FOyUrPJLJooo%2F I am becoming a connoisseur of iced tea. I got out of the habit of drinking soda pop and stronger drinks when I was in treatment for and recovering from cancer. Pretty much every book or article about the general “living with and avoiding of” cancer will tell you that alcohol and sugary drinks like soda pop are to be avoided. Sugar is now a main target of anti-cancer diets. Sugar, processed foods, fast foods (same thing). My new food philosophy: if a cockroach won’t eat it, why should I? It’s easiest to go to the grocery store to pick up huge jugs of the pre-made tea. Iced tea is very popular now; people are trying to be healthier, after all. It’s also reasonably simple to make: get some dried camellia sinensis leaves; add boiling water. For me, it is necessar... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3854703 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:32:49 +0100 3854703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3854706&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F7nvSn-9q4Wk%2F I have an approach to these alleged swear words that is not particularly moral but is based on aesthetics — personal aesthetics that seem to be not much more than amusing to the people I explain them to. Here is my aesthetic objection then: I am against the majority of uses of swear words because they are overused. These words are meant to startle, to express extremes of anger or despair or regret or disgust. To add to the mood, the emotion, an overused word is almost useless, a waste of breath and vocal cords. The more that I use them, the less effect they will have on my listeners. When I use them, I want my listeners to pay that extra attention to what I say. This does not work if the word in question is used to modify every noun that comes out of my mouth. Filed under: Ephemera... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3854706 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:56:46 +0100 3854706 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3795017&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fs7vzj9C3Vpk%2F During the hot nights they sleep out in the open What keeps me up at night is me myself. That’s a simple beginning to the explanation. At the beginning: I slept like the proverbial baby since I actually was a baby first sleeping through the night up until I was sixteen years old, there or thereabouts. At that time: melodrama with my mother of the most toxic sort. We eventually fought each other so hard that we gave ourselves semi-permanent injuries: she developed an ulcer, I developed a hiatal hernia which in later life metamorphosed into esophageal cancer. Only then did I let it go: the anger. I hadn’t known before that that it could be done. It had simply never occurred to me. I finally, then, learned a basic mental fact as elemental as that 1 + 1 = 2. It took Bertrand Russell ab... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3795017 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:40:48 +0100 3795017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3786242&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fy2z0AlVBofQ%2F Where to start? That question is the first thing that springs to my mind when I think of writing my life down. I could start with my birth: that’s dull and brings to mind Dickens David Copperfield, whether or not you have even read the book. I’m not him. In reality, the beginning is where I say it is. Think of it as like picking a point on a circle to be the beginning of a circle. There is no beginning or end, not really. Just pick a point — any will do. It’s as arbitrary as that. It — my life — only makes sense to me if I start with the here and now and work backwards. That makes this piece of writing, here and now, the first chapter of my memoirs. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: memoir (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3786242 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:52:17 +0100 3786242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761590&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fab5rb2SVh44%2F less is more … realized that, in most cases, what we have already is enough. Less may be more, but quite often more is not more. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: better place, less is more (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761590 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:12:59 +0100 3761590 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3758061&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fs43N6-Js5MY%2F “You have your whole life ahead of you.” I was seventeen and in the throes of a toxic relationship with my mother. An English teacher of mine gave me that bit of advice in a long stream of advice that I have otherwise forgotten. I’m 54 now, but it suddenly occurs to me that the advice is still good: I still have my whole life ahead of me. In retrospect, I don’t think she would have appreciated the Zen of it. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: advice, life, mother, teacher (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3758061 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:44:38 +0100 3758061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746931&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FoIKwmb1kvaI%2F To relive one day of my life: my eighteenth birthday is the first day that pops into mind. Life took an upturn that year: I was a senior in high school, at the top of my form (not very high, perhaps, but still a peak). I had managed to escape my poisonous home life with my mother and father who took off for Florida instead, leaving me in the care of friends who had four daughters and whose house was one big nest of love and friendship. I got four cakes: three that day (one in AP Biology, right before lunch, one at lunch from my non-AP Biology friends, one that evening at dinner at the friends’ house mentioned above), and one a couple of weeks later with my parents and cousins when my parents returned home. I’ve had happy birthdays since, but that’s the one I always rememb... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746931 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:41:40 +0100 3746931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3743686&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJpqDxhYqq3c%2F Every spring vacation, we would go to Miami Beach, and more often than not, the Bahamas as well. My dad didn’t let a small thing like 15-foot waves stop him. Bimini, Bahamas – Fishing boat leaving dock She was sitting, her whole body clenched, in the cabin of the fishing boat as it made its way east from Miami Beach to the Bahamas. The waves were incredibly high, but probably not as high as they looked to her. They also probably didn’t quite run at a 90° angle, though they might as well have again. By the time the boat had crossed the Gulfstream safely, and the drenched captain had docked the boat and was hosing the salt off of its sides, her hands had been clenched so hard for so long that they were paralyzed in strange contortions of finger and hand muscles. It took a... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3743686 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +0100 3743686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3737222&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FhjQo8c_hhbc%2F You might have noticed (hard to avoid it) my many theme changes so far since I moved this blog here to WordPress.com about a month ago. I always love hunting for themes, but have gone back now to the 2010 default theme, which seems to me to be the best one of all so far. The previous theme, Koi, was lovely and all, but the orange-y background was beginning to piss me off. Maybe in another lifetime I will get around to sticking with one specific graphical presence, but not now. All these themes: it’s like having a hundred different pairs of shoes to try — you can’t just choose one. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Koi, shoes, themes, WordPress (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3737222 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:16:06 +0100 3737222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726735&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FIMqzHKhZQLA%2F CPR = chicken, potato & rice. Sitting outdoord at Zoe Ma Ma. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: chicken, food, lunch, potatoes, rice (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726735 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:40:31 +0100 3726735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3706860&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FCGphz71DFwc%2F I could be wrong, but… Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: candy, candy bar, politically incorrect (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3706860 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:20:32 +0100 3706860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3706861&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F4cIXOwN7_DM%2F I am still happily overwhelmed by Peter and Betsy’s official engagement, and am starting to be bewildered by all of what I assume are the traditional worries of a mother-in-law, like “Oh my gawd, how do you plan a wedding, anyway?” Then I remember, with relief, that it’s not the groom’s family that organizes the wedding. One thing that I remember from the time of my own engagement, lo those many years ago into the misty past of the 1970′s, is my own father’s initial plans for our wedding. A couple of mornings after our official announcement, my father looked at us and said, “I’ll give you $5,000 to go to Las Vegas and elope.” Unfortunately for us all, my mother walked into the room at that moment and heard what he said. So much fo... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3706861 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:33:09 +0100 3706861 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699664&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FY07xpOYp7kI%2F Congratulations for my son and his brand-new fiancée, Betsy! No details yet to share with anyone, but Peter and Betsy are probably the only two people who are happier about it than we are. Filed under: Ephemera (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699664 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:27:02 +0100 3699664 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3695762&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FNlWSe9QEVJQ%2F Sushi lunch at the corner of 15th and Pearl. Almost-eaten Philadelphia roll Water Scent of spilled beer (not mine) in the shade Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: lunch, sushi (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3695762 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:34:09 +0100 3695762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3691052&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FgEmyj6-mGM0%2F I took a walk this evening across the street to our local park here in Boulder to walk off the nerves that have accumulated mysteriously since I had my port removed a couple of weeks ago. We have had sunny weather ever since our arrival; if it rains, the clouds pass quickly. The Front Range keeps any weather pattern from hanging around forever, as it is in Cincinnati. I had forgotten that the Farmer’s Market would be open, but it was/is. I had also naively assumed that Farmer’s Markets are only open in the early part of the day. Fortunately, I was wrong: the booths were open and filled with freshly raised broccoli and salad greens and grass-fed beef. Hundreds of people were there at the height of dinner time, including many families with small children. Everyone was spread out ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3691052 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:36:58 +0100 3691052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683818&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FXCmjm-tWcqQ%2F I love this day when the week gets started up again, and out of the malaise that always happens on a Sunday, even here in Boulder land. What I am beginning to hate, though: constant old reggae in every single coffee house that I patronize. Right now, in The Cup, we have a slight change of pace from constant Bob Marley, with Desmond Dekker singing “Israelites.” Bob Marley would surely have gotten bored with his own songs by now. I love the Jamaica, No Problem music, but surely a little Brian Eno or Talking Heads or Morcheeba could be played every once in a while… Filed under: Ephemera, music Tagged: Monday (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683818 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:35 +0100 3683818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3676850&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F3Ym_Ls-Ro5M%2F Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: afternoon, Friday, music (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3676850 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:00:10 +0100 3676850 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3676851&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FjSD7tKqNkss%2F Again and again. I love traveling, but hate the suspension of normal reality while it occurs. But we are here, nevertheless, as you see by the last post of beautiful Boulder Creek at almost-flood stage. If only I could get the dog and the cats here somehow, we would be all set and have little reason to go back to Cincinnati, especially that now you can get Graeter’s ice cream shipped anywhere. Hmm, I’m talking myself out of Cincinnati as I type. Benefit of staying here forever: I never have to drive through Kansas again. Filed under: Ephemera Tagged: Boulder, Boulder CO, Boulder Creek, Colorado, Graeter's (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3676851 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:09:04 +0100 3676851 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3655754&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FZDzxSnWNMb8%2F I was just outside with the dogs. It was around 9:30, and there was still a bit of light in the western sky. The stars were not yet out, but the lightning bugs were. I had noticed them a couple of nights ago, just a few. But now they were out in such numbers that it was as if the lawn were sparkling. Some things cameras just can’t catch. (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3655754 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:37:02 +0100 3655754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3655755&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FpsWHAG3qEHY%2F Wednesday: we had the chance to visit the garden at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbus OH. We were the guests of first lady Frances Strickland, and former first lady Hope Taft. It’s a marvelous garden, with sections for each of Ohio’s five wilderness types (hey, we even have sand dunes). I took a few pictures… (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3655755 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:28:57 +0100 3655755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3618046&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FPdG7UNv2eVs%2F This is always one of my favorite weekends: it’s the official start of summer, marked by the opening of the pool at the club. However, lunch there isn’t always as much fun as it could be. They unfortunately have a great many items on the menu that are fried in some form, and hard to digest. Well, it’s my own fault for ordering a mettwurst when it’s 90° out, and trying to eat the silly thing when it arrived. That plus a couple of glasses of the chemical mixture they call Coke makes for an uncomfortable afternoon. But I escaped sunburn, and it’s summer. What more can you want? (Not mettwurst, that’s for sure.) (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3618046 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:03:55 +0100 3618046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3614659&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FU4g4h0rbaA0%2F (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3614659 Sun, 30 May 2010 18:41:14 +0100 3614659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599676&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F2J4EID_v6Z8%2F (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599676 Tue, 25 May 2010 14:52:43 +0100 3599676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599678&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F-82FndR5DR8%2F My re-mapping of the white-pebble domain has worked. I have not even caused any device anywhere, at godaddy.com or wordpress.com, or even at my own home, to emit smoke and require an expensive service call. I am therefore quite pleased with myself, and am figuring out what would be a suitable way to celebrate. I can’t think of one yet. The blogroll needs to be redone. Will go work on that. (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599678 Mon, 24 May 2010 14:54:50 +0100 3599678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3581791&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fxs1IPVKnHa4%2F Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests” will now be transformed into “connections,” meaning that they will be shared publicly. If you don’t want these parts of your profile to be made public, your only option is to delete them. via eff.org Trying to consider: how much do I need Facebook? Posted via web from Patti’s posterous (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3581791 Thu, 20 May 2010 14:38:59 +0100 3581791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599679&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FqXV_RYZwEe0%2F (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599679 Sat, 15 May 2010 15:41:51 +0100 3599679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599680&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FwhsTyfb-QH0%2F GOP Congressman Demands Attorney General Say The Words 'Radical Islam': http://huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/lamar-smith-really-wants_n_576764.html (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599680 Fri, 14 May 2010 23:50:48 +0100 3599680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599681&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F0iZoo49d1fA%2F (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599681 Thu, 13 May 2010 19:31:27 +0100 3599681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599682&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FI2mLoQbqZuY%2F via en.wikipedia.org Frances Hodgson Burnett (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599682 Wed, 12 May 2010 15:53:53 +0100 3599682 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599684&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FfPeua8VOYxE%2F http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook Sent from my iPad (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599684 Wed, 12 May 2010 12:51:18 +0100 3599684 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3590469&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FAdGztgP381s%2F The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of “San Francisco liberals.” But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate. via nationaljournal.com (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3590469 Tue, 11 May 2010 02:56:43 +0100 3590469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552502&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FMOVrHtPEkus%2F The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of “San Francisco liberals.” But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate. via nationaljournal.com Posted via web from Patti’s posterous (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552502 Tue, 11 May 2010 02:56:43 +0100 3552502 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3590470&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FNTl_d6EzNcw%2F The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of “San Francisco liberals.” But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate. via nationaljournal.com (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3590470 Tue, 11 May 2010 02:56:28 +0100 3590470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552503&cid=t_106573_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2Fvgklc7CEXro%2F The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose moral values and louche lifestyles of “San Francisco liberals.” But if you want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids, your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that cultural conservatives love to hate. via nationaljournal.com Posted via web from Patti’s posterous (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552503 Tue, 11 May 2010 02:56:28 +0100 3552503