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Let 'em Fail! Imagine that a passenger liner, far out at sea, strikes an iceberg. The owners of the ship, with the government's blessing, had removed the lifeboats ...

Loose Associations $ let 'em fail! (20September2008) : it's time to let Wall Street collapse $ open letter (11September2008) : my automobile insurance company ...

Desert Heart HIKING GOLDEN BROWN HILLS, sun dazzling, dry breeze hot I kneel before a great flat stone and, struck from behind I am surprised to find my heart on ...

profound changes My car died a dramatic death last Saturday. I was driving on a beautiful spring day with the top down. Elizabeth was in the passenger seat. We were ...

To Blog or Not To Blog Back in the early 1990's when the World Wide Web was new, before there were page spinners and WYSIWYG HTML editors and cascading style sheets ...

Second Night Spaces Our second night together In not too many years Our love, so long enduring, So chaste and pure unless you count The thousand or so lascivious thoughts ...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold ...

scarlet with my neighbors #8217; long since bare I cling to turnéd leaves rust and brown, sere and crisp, yet not surrendered to the ground where others #8217; have ...

longer days RonRisley 12 Apr 2008

from seed to fruit WHEN YOU PLANT a tree, it is with the expectation that it will grow But O! so long from seed to fruit: the tender shoot That first sees sun by foot ...

The Trouble with Time Machine I guess it's the 21st century equivalent to getting a lump of coal in my stocking. I don't know which of my many moral failures led to ...

thanks be bicycles breathing cheap airfares clean water co workers comfortable shoes Con Dad electricity Elizabeth financial security fresh food health hot showers ...

The Science Wizard We just threw a sixth birthday party for Matthew. He wanted a Harry Potter theme, and I thought it would be fun to have a magician. I did a web ...

Car Trouble My car has this cool feature: you can simultaneously close or open all the windows from outside the car by holding the key in the lock or unlock ...

me, simpsonized I've been simpsonized:

automation As I'm typing this: I have a load of clothes being washed in my washing machine. Another load of clothes is being dried in an automated dryer ...

Compact Fluorescent Lights We've all heard the statistics: if every person in the US would replace their incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent (CF) bulbs ...

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I Have Time I HAVE TIME to sleep a few hours each night, Time to play two year old and five year old games, Time to earn a living, attend church, support my communities ...

spring awaiting RonRisley 10 Mar 2007

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Home Improvement This house has needed a new kitchen since about 1970. That's when the previous owners added on to the kitchen by enclosing the front porch, but never ...

The Walk ON THE WALK I am alone. The child wrapped around my belly Has simple needs, satisfied for now. The phone at my belt, silent. Trees, sky, pavement, air lack ...

It is not my place; it was his. I honor memory. Pretzels that distracted while pizza cooled are gone, churros now. The rest remains: lines where I held him 'til arms ...

port wine like a glass of port wine born with a kiss of sun and a spray of slightly salty breeze plucked away, crushed, strengthened in a musty stew filtered, clarified ...

Tea, Daddy? A couple of months or so ago I was feeling sick. Very sick. I was taking care of three year old Matthew and was trying to keep up with him despite the ...

Metering Trees Crews are busy all around Sacramento County, digging and plumbing, installing water meters. Like many transplants from elsewhere in California, where ...

a paean to loneliness where it really happens. craving distraction. wishing for a word, a touch. so desperate that even a television voice would be welcome. but ...

Doctor in the House? Matthew and I went to the Sacramento Zoo this morning. We were waiting at the gate to have our membership card checked while the gentleman at ...

Creek Adventure Sacramento County is flat. Really flat. There are many trees, which is a Very Good Thing , but thick trees in such a flat land means that you seldom ...

A Day in the Life 05:00 Matthew wakes up, wanders around the house a bit, crawls into bed with me. He thrashes around for 10 15 minutes, then says "I want to get ...

Flare From the light of dreams to morning's gloom, Illuminated by a son, next darkened by a cloud. A sun filled ride to a light, supportive room Then late and lost ...

After the Show All of my old world and all the things in it are hard to find... if they ever were mine. Shawn Colvin I sang in the mixed chorus at my high school ...

On My Rocker It's back! After fourteen months at the restorer, I finally have my rocking chair again. A year ago February I sat rocking Matthew on my lap when the ...

Vacation They leave. Often too soon. They leave us behind with the thousand daily sorrows and joys of our lives. We speak of their big things, their public things ...

Fresh Linens I just bought some new sheets. They're nothing particularly exotic, just some 400 TC cotton sheets that were on sale at overstock.com. I don't buy sheets ...

Just Say Whatever Mark 13:11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the ...

WHAT MAKES experience worth waiting for? Why not indulge in hedonistic now? Always, there is an easy open door. Temptation beckons, there to show us how To bypass ...

Corporate Personhood I am skeptical about bumper stickers as an effective form of communication. Can any important social issue be reduced to a message that fits on ...

WHAT PROFIT, then, in contemplating ends While things begin, at midpoint, at the last? We know that tricky time just warps and bends Perceptions of our now, our then ...

Remembering How to Breathe There is a cosmological model that posits that every time some probabilistic event happens in the universe, reality forks into two or more ...

Solitude Must Seek Its Own Repair Solitude must seek its own repair, Relying not on others to find right, Trusting but to God, to self, to prayer. Though counsel has ...

Petrichor "Petrichor" is the smell produced by the first rain on dry ground. It is a wonderful word as well as one of my favorite scents. We just had a couple of weeks ...

A Poet, by Any Other Name… I suppose that it is a comfort to those whose computer systems depend on me to think of my verse as a hobby. “He dabbles in poetry,” they ...

In Recognition of Single Parents I woke up today with a cold, a URI, the sniffles, maybe the flu, the crud, whatever you want to call it, I felt (and feel) horrible ...

Harbingers of Spring ...and I wonder if the Spring, like you, won't come back next year. JE In four decades, through times both cynical and mystic, early manifestations ...

More Prose $ in recognition of single parents (07February2005): some site news and a tip of the virtual hat to people who raise kids on their own $ Elizabeth ...

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Wealth and Privilege I have been in a major funk, feeling sorry for myself. I don't imagine it's pretty, but my friends have been supportive nonetheless. One particularly ...