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Million Dollar Questions
When I said I hate the cold and moved from the frozen wasteland down to hot & humid Houston, did I really mean it? If my choices are 100+ degree heat or 20 below cold… what kind of choices are those, anyway?
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Why are “they” allowed to say things like “the world gets out of the way for people who know where they are going”? Isn’t that false advertising? I have tested extensively, and I assure you: corners do not move. Chairs and tables do not move. Walls, doors, windows… it doesn’t matter how purposefully you walk; in fact, walking purposefully only makes the lesson more painful: they do not move.
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Has humanity really sunk to this?. “This” is a symptom checker on WebMD. It advises you to read the provided questions and “click on the “Yes” in front of the question for information about how soon to see a health professional.” First question? “Do you think you have broken your knee or pulled your kneecap out of place?”
Seriously? Seriously?!
Who does this? Whose process goes “I think I broke my knee… I wonder if I should see a doctor. …
Horses in Literature
Chiquita
Beautiful! Sire, you may say so. Thar isn’t her match in the country.
Is thar, old gall—Chiquita, my darling, my beauty!
Feel of that neck, sir—thar’s velvet! Who! Stady—ah, will you, you vixen!
Whoa! I say. Jack, trot her out; let the gentleman look at her paces.
Morgan!—she ain’t nothing else, and I’ve got the papers to prove it.
Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dollars won’t buy her.
Briggs of Tuolumne owned her. Did you know Briggs of Tuolumne?
Busted hisself in White Pine, and
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