The post-rainfall Wisconsin worms were fat, long, everywhere. It took forever to walk to school those days, as I methodically calculated each footstep. To avoid squishing them, releasing even more of the pungent earthy smell I hated. To avoid accidentally cutting one in two, creating two separate worms that would live where there once was […]
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Dances with Worms
Posted in Animals, Children, Fear, Film, Rain, Youth on April 18, 2014 | 2 Comments »
The Three Stooges
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Film, Friendship, Growing up, Having Fun, Masculinity on June 23, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Three 12-year-olds are in my living room, finally slowing down for some screen time before heading off to sleeping bags and whispered late night boy humor. My best friend was just visiting, and somehow the topic of The Three Stooges came up. She asserted that the timelessness of their comedy is dependent on Curly. I […]
Hier klicken (Click here)*
Posted in Film, Idiosyncracies, Internet, Writing on April 8, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Despite the numbers of comments caught by this site’s spam filters each day – thousands, according to the daily spam filter count – about 20 make it through. I cull through them, pulling out these internet weeds to make way for the tiny number of comments from my tiny number of readers to make their […]