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And Now, We Wait
"Hello?" "George, it's Mindy. Mindy Okimoto." I put on my glasses and look at the digital time on my cable box. It's 3:41 AM. "You're not calling me at a quarter to four in the morning to get together for tea and a doughnut, are......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-01 13:00:13 | Rating:

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HOSPITALity
She rests in bed, very quietly. She seldom moves. Her eyes remain focused on the television, which displays the usual woman meets man/woman marries man/man abuses woman/man cheats on woman/man beats woman/woman through luck and pluck manages to survive movie one usually......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-03 19:06:06 | Rating:

| Views: 28 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Friendship Relationships Life

25 Random Brain Waves
1) I truly appreciate the beauty of the early morning…especially in the spring and summer. It’s a hybrid of both the quiet and the promise. It’s the aromatic freshness that circulates through your lungs; it’s the awakening wildlife. It is a bracing of the spirit.......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-09 19:31:25 | Rating:

| Views: 32 | Comments: 4 | Tags: Humor Life

The Question
The venue tonight would be the Denny's, on Route 206 north of Columbus. I've been coming here, somewhat infrequently, since the closing of the Palmetto Diner. Because of the faltering economy, from what I understand, the diner will sit, boarded up, until rats take over the......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-13 21:05:26 | Rating:

| Views: 36 | Comments: 2 | Tags: Friendship Relationships Life

Teal
"Just a toasted bagel?" "Yep." "Coffee?" "Decaf." Teal, the server working the counter tonight, punches my order into a computer terminal. "Oooookay," he says, before heading back towards the kitchen. "I've never been......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-15 09:17:13 | Rating:

| Views: 46 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Friendship Relationships Life

Cock-a-doodle-doo
Follow this, now... Kellogg's, up in Battle Creek, Michigan- the company who has the wherewithal to market to your children twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, all in an effort to get you to buy them endless boxes of cereal loaded with little more than sugar (at the usurious rate of......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-16 05:21:11 | Rating:

| Views: 35 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Sports Life

Just take those old records off the shelf...
I've always loved classic, old time 1950s rock and roll. Rhythm and Blues (the REAL rhythm and blues- not the femalecentric fecal matter of today that all sounds the same), Doo-wop, Rockabilly. First time I ever heard this stuff was in the early '70s, when I'm like ten......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-17 14:37:23 | Rating:

| Views: 57 | Comments: 3 | Tags: Music Life

Hypocrites
The deafness of the conservative rank and file to the patent insincerity of their leaders is one of the true cultural marvels of the Great Backlash. It extends from the local level to the highest heights, from clear-eyed city council aspirant to George W. Bush, a man so ham-handed......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-19 13:11:07 | Rating:

| Views: 41 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Life Conservatism Sports

Stay
"Hi, George. Decaf?" "Yep." Teal pours a hot mug of coffee for me. "Toasted bagel, too." "Sure.". He punches my order into the terminal, and heads off. It's Saturday night at the Columbus......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-21 23:12:55 | Rating:

| Views: 38 | Comments: 1 | Tags: Friendship Relationships Life

Madelina
Aunt Sally's is one of those diners whose name changes about every time you change your skivvies. I've been stopping in, on and off, for like, I don't know. Fifteen, twenty years. The only thing constant about this place is that the liquor license gets passed from......Read More