A Perfectionist Endeavor
Posted in Community, General, Spirituality on May 8th, 2008
On May morning I got up at five a.m. and went into town to welcome in the spring with singing and dancing. I had had enough of Morris dancers in other years, so this year I watched some green people who played wonderful folk music with instruments resembling giant bladders. They had green unwashed hair [...]
Posted in Beauty, Community, Family, General, Personal Hygiene on May 5th, 2008
My mother is always complaining about how her house doesn’t look good enough. She claims that one of her friends actually refused to stay at her house because it did not meet the friend’s standards for interior design. Here is the formula my mother believes about her house: Children + Pets + Too Many [...]
Posted in Community, General, Spirituality on May 1st, 2008
This advice is directed at the weather. More than two days of rain in a row are too much. We don’t like getting wet when we are riding our bike to the library because our jeans stay wet for hours, and then we get pneumonia and die, and the city turns into a ghost town, [...]