Author Archives: Alice
Suzie’s House 368 : Unloading
Lisa had no intentions of doing anything with Tracy today, let alone with Tracy and her band. She was on her way to the library when she happened to see them drive by. Or, more to the point, she saw Bruce trying to drive a van that kept stalling out and gave in to curiosity. She thought the fact she could keep up with them while on foot spoke volumes about Bruce’s driving. Then again, it was only a few […]
Physical Therapy
It has now been six weeks since I started getting physical therapy for my arthritic leg. I’m far from optimal, but I’m doing a whole lot better. It still hurts to bend over and pick things up off the floor. It still hurts to stand up. It still hurts if I sit for too long. But I can now ride my bicycle again. I only managed to go a couple of blocks, but I count it a joyous victory. I […]
Arround the World in a Day
Jill: You’re playing that airplane game again? What happened to talking about your boss about driving a taxi again? Jack: I did talk to him. Jill: And? Jack: He said I could come back as soon as a week had two Thursdays. I could work the second Thursday. Jill: Argh! That means your fired for good! Jack: Not necessarily. Remember when we went to Mongolia? We gained a day. But we don’t have the money to go back, so I’m […]
It’s Like Riding a Bicycle. You Never Forget.
“Need a fork?” Jane smirked. She already had her chopsticks out, though she hadn’t scooped up any of the stir-fry yet. “No! No, I’m good.” Marge took her chopstick out of the little restaurant wrapper and tried to remember how you hold them. “I bet you can’t do this.” Jane reached out with her chopsticks, aiming at a pop bottle. She had almost lifted it when the bottle fell over, sending a cascade of bubbles over the table, and one […]
13 Random Words.
Guess who didn’t have a list this week. Since The Girl is hanging out behind me, I made her come with with some words. These are all off the top of her head, with her related comments in parentheses. 1. Prestidigitation 2. Ambiance 3. Inconvenience 4. Gentility 5. Absurdity (just like this) 6. Okay (I’m not a word machine, Mom. Jeeezzz) 7. Paranormal 8. Grave 9. Parallel 10. Conspicuous 11. Necessary 12. silhouette 13. (Swear word. No, don’t put that. […]
Suzie’s House 367 : Driver in Training
“Go, go, go!” Tracy sat in the shotgun seat and leaned way too close while she looked out the driver’s window. “Y-yeah. We… we should g-g-g-go.” Emma sat right behind him. For a moment Bruce couldn’t remember how he’d ended up in the driver’s seat. Technically, he didn’t know how to drive.
Big Sky Ren Fest
A few weeks ago I went to the Big Sky Renfair. I missed some of the bigger events, which took place on a rainy Friday when I was insanely busy; but I managed to catch a couple of entertaining acts. A woman did an contortionist act involving two long swaths of fabric attached to a tipi of poles. Except that she mostly did climbing and posing rather than swinging and jumping, it reminded me a bit of the trapeze. I’m […]
Passing gas as a game
(In case you missed it before, Jack is a taxi driver.) Jill: You’re home from work awfully early. What happened. Jack: I was fired. Jill: Fired!? Why? Jack: It all started when one of the guys ran out of gas. I organized a rescue effort. All the other guys had fares, but we all stopped as we passed each other and handed off this gallon of gas. A gallon should be enough to get the guy back to the garage, […]
Losing His Head
At the Bitterroot Mercantile in Darby, Montana, the clientele expect a certain ambiance. It isn’t enough that there are trophies on the wall. The animal heads must come from something the owner hunted and have a story to go with it. Unluckily for Ken, he’d only ever bagged one animal and that had been more traffic accident than safari. Still, he dutifully hung the ram’s head on his wall and claimed a kinship with Earnest Hemingway right up until the […]
13 Awarded
I moved all the pretty awards off my sidebar last weekend. I think they are great, but their time has past. It made me nostalgic. So I came up with my own award. To those of you on my list who just flinched, relax. This is not a guilt or effort inducing award. You are not suppose to pass it along, or answer questions, or blog about it, or anything else. It’s just a shout out to my homies. To […]
Suzie’s House 366 : Uncle John’s Band
The drum kit would be the tricky part. He had hinted to the drummer girl that it would be better to go with something simpler. A hint was the best he could do when Bruce kept jumping down his throat about every little thing, especially in front of the band. Well, now that she saw where they were playing she’d get smart about it. Or not. She was already pulling one of those big drums out of the van like […]
Awards
You may have noticed that I made a change or two in the way my blog looks. I have moved all the awards from my left sidebar to here. I’ve been thinking for sometime that I should remove them from my sidebar. Most are from my early days of blogging when people were into giving each other these things as a game. Most of them don’t mean all that much. But aren’t they pretty? I was kind of using them […]
