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…when Toby is bored or complaining, [his father] announces as if to an unseen audience, “The kid has the wim-wams.”Kinderscenen by John Updike in Harpers, December 2006, Page 82I always wondered what that was, but only since I read this short story, as I’d never heard this term before…

We noticed that the house behind us has had the shades pulled for a while and we hardly ever see any lights on.  We thought it was strange, but since we don’t interact with them, we really didn’t think much about it.  But the other day, I said to Jill, I wonder if she’s left…

I found many spritual truths in the book, Eldest by Christopher Paolini361:7 Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall.  There is only now.400:6 Because when you’re in pain, notheing else can exist.  Not thought.  Not emotion.  Only the drive to escape the pain.440:7…

The Central Division Minnesota Twins played the Baltimore Orioles in the Minnesota home opener this evening and won by a score of 7 to 4.  Good going Twins.In other news, we’ll miss the Twins announcer Herb Carneal who passed away yesterday at age 83.

… thrice blessed by being virtually farmer-free, a site upon which the Middle American equation of agricultural drudgery and Christian virtue has no traction, where mercantile virtues triumph and your average Nevadan’s experience of food production is confined to watching the “lobster plane” land at McCarran airport every morning.Dave Hickey, It’s Morning in Nevada, Harper’s,…