When I lived in downtown Las Vegas near Freemont Street, my neighbors were a lovely, lively bunch of people. My apartment was inside First United Methodist Church. I lived across the street from the police station, behind a bank and next door to a casino. Bums slept in the alley [...]
The bathroom was clean except for the mirrors. I needed Windex. I went to the kitchen and grabbed a couple of paper towels, then reached under the kitchen sink and pulled out my brand new blue bottle. Back in the bathroom I sprayed the mirror and scrubbed. And scrubbed. And [...]
Today, every half-hour or so, Chez would look up from whatever he was doing, see me across the room, and his face would suddenly light with joy. He’d dash to me, declare jubilantly in his high squeaky voice, I love you!, then hug and/or kiss me, before bounding away as [...]
Mimi started it — as usual. Cooper participated, then tagged O’Ceallaigh & The Quill. I told OC he had to respond to the tag because Cooper is his girl-friend. He did such a good job I decided to play, too, but I opted for silly instead of serious. After reading [...]
That’s how I feel about this weekend. Nothing horrible happened. But nothing good happened either. If I had it to go back and do over again, I’d sleep through the whole damn thing. My batteries certainly haven’t recharged. I feel worse coming out then I did going in. [...]