Meme of seven
Seven facts
One day to go
Pre-election stress 'n' Hi and Lois
2:14 a.m.
What if he loses?
Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
"'Curiosity never killed this cat' — that's what I'd like as my epitaph.”
Goodbye, local paper
I'm not gonna take it.
I early voted
And I have proof
Little Baby Turtle
Illustrated story, unbelievably cute!
Dream with a typo in it
Columbain coffee?
Nineteen years later
"The day I smoked my last cigarette — October 8, 1989 — still sticks in my head. October 8 has become an anniversary of sorts."
Domestic comedy
"Towheaded?"
Five desks
"As you may by now suspect, I've never had a desk."
Arthur Parker on "East Central Illinois"
A line from Pennies from Heaven
Quimby economics
Ramona Quimby speaks for us all: "We are scrimping and pinching to make ends meet."
Domestic comedy
Is it a dearth, or a plethora?
Domestic comedy
"Have we ever seen John Malkovich in a movie that was any good?"
Red Cross
The day Gustav made landfall
Domestic comedy
"just yellow"
Domestic comedy
Re: the Olympics
Little Gap of horrors
PhotographL a mannequin down in The Gap, as headless peers stand by
People and the rest of us
A passage from Gordon Livingston's Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
"[H]appiness-producing processes"
Passage from Gordon Livingston's Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Happy Birthday, Dad
He just turned 80.
Maxims from a physicist
From David P. Stern: "Look for kindred souls. They are few and far between, and nothing is more precious."
"[A] process and an unfolding"
George Eliot on human freedom, a passage from Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Things I learned on my summer vacation (2008)
Third in the series
61 Atherton Road
House we lived in as tenants -- selling 23 years later
Daughter, time, wine
Time passes
Serendipitous searching at Big Lots
Kleenex, tea
Earthquake
Earthquake hits Illinois
Lucky numbers
Lucky number shortage in fortune-cookie factory