March is the month I love the least. It is the only month that doesn’t work out for me, and if I were a millionaire old lady who only had her cats to worry about, I might spend the whole month on the couch, watching bad television and eating pizza and vanilla Heath bar ice [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 17, 2009
Family Portrait – My Dad’s Missing Pieces
My dad has been without his two front teeth since before my brothers and I were born. We thought of the missing teeth as a sign of Dad’s other life, before marriage and kids and an incessant flow of oil changes, transmission replacements and weekend side jobs on other people’s cars kept him in a [...]
March 9, 2009
What I Didn’t Learn in School
School is supposed to prepare us for life, but it did not prepare me. I have not had to calculate the area of a triangle (½bh) or the distance of side c of the triangle if side a= 2 and side b = 3 (a2 +b2=c2). I haven’t ever had to answer the question, if [...]
March 2, 2009
Homeward Bound
If you believe what you read on the internet (I’ll tell you that you probably shouldn’t believe anything you read on Al Gore’s invention, hee hee, except for what you read on this blog), you would believe that one possible origin of the word “hobo” is that it’s a contraction of the words “homeward bound.” [...]
