Regular Life

(Readers of “Bernie” will find Part Five, a shorter section ready to take you into the weekend.)

Okay, so it’s only the bridge, but I heard the train a few times while I was inside working with the customers. I shot these pics last week on my way back from the 3rd Street Deli, a [...]

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I geeked out a little after my co-worker and I sat down for dinner at The Firefly Grill. She returned from a restroom trip to find me taking pictures of [...]

Thanks to all who answered my call for help on Thursday’s post. I think I came to some of the same conclusions in a comment or two that a few of you pointed out later, but no problem. It turns out that all the repetition moved me to action.
If you read yesterday’s post, can [...]

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I wish they would have had these pits when I was a kid. Just last weekend, when I finally got to see one, there was some lame rule about nobody older than 18 using the equipment. I stood there in my sock feet and sulked for about three seconds, then went [...]

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I miss snow.
All of you living in places where you have too much of it, I know it’s hard to believe, but the cold white stuff — never the same flake twice! — is very miss-able.
Like the bodies of dying crystalline butterflies, the flakes float to the ground and silently stack [...]

Anyone whom we sent a Christmas card probably already has it, or will very shortly. It looks exactly like the image above. All of you who do not receive one can just look at the picture here. We’re not even sure we’re going to send out 70-something cards next year, so keep your eye here [...]

Ben likes to draw, and lately he’s been going through construction paper so fast that I’m expecting a visit from Treehugger.com. More and more these days, we come pretty close when guessing what he has drawn. Almost every time, his explanation of the scene makes sense in relation to the lines and [...]

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Last year we drove around Dallas’ Highland Park neighborhood, a relatively swank area featuring homes I grew up calling mansions, to look at grand Christmas displays. You know. The kind that people pay to have installed by illegal immigrants.
This year we did it in style.
In [...]

  That’s me in the center, with Captain Morgan as my team leader.
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It’s time finally to tell the tale of another first, and this one’s not for the [...]

From the darker end of the bridge (1-second exposure, freehand).
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After my work was done on Thursday, I tried to make it to Clarkson Covered Bridge before sunset. Tucked in a valley, its surroundings go dark before the sun completes its dip below the horizon. Built in 1904 and restored [...]