Fool's Errand

You fooled me once
Thinking we could fool around;
‘Cause you don’t suffer fools
And I’m nobody’s fool.

But you rushed in
To act the fool
To part with money
To fool away your life
With me.

I took you for a fool
Made a fool of myself
Played the fool
For you.
With you.

You could've fooled me
But you weren’t fooling.
You were no fool.
You stepped off that cliff
And caught me before I fell.

So tee-hee, I declare:

Fooling around
With you
Is a certain kind
Of paradise.

Happy Today.

KBC to DCC
4/1/16

(Originally hack-posted to Entropical Paradise...)

They Can't Take Maddaway From Me

Love song for Maddy Caven, 1997-2013 ~ apologies/gratitude to George & Ira Gershwin

There are many, many crazy things

That we’ll always love about you,
And with your permission
May I list a few?

The way you’d get the cat.
The way you’d run so free.
The memory of all that -
No, no - they can't take that away from me.

The way you’d fill the bed.

The way we fixed your knee.
The way you’d shake and shed.
No, no - they can't take that away from me.

We may never, never meet again
On that bumpy road of life
Still I'll always,
Always keep the memory of...



The way you filled my lap (do-do-do-do do-do).
The way you’d lick your pee.
The way you changed our life.
No, no - they can't take that away from me.

No, they can't take that away from me.

Total Eclipse of the Son

As the light weakened yesterday evening, I got this sorry feeling in the pit of my stomach, being one of those who gets S.A.D. when the light goes. But my husband whipped up an eclipse box, neighbors came out, and soon we were all playing with the little crescent-shaped shadows the sun made everywhere as the world didn't end.

I remembered a solar eclipse twenty-some years ago that occurred just as I was pondering making a move with a guy I liked. I heard on the radio that from a psychic point of view when the sun and moon cross, it's a good augur for male/female relations. Here we were, playing with the sun and our son.  Throughout the evening I realized how often our smaller problems often eclipse our bigger ones.

70 Things that Remind Us of You

In honor of my dad on his 70th birthday, here are 70 things that remind us of him. Happy Birthday, daddy!

1. ‘snot
2. 10¢ whiskers
3. 1937 Tiffin St.
4. 7-11 coffee
5. agua sin hielo
6. Ballreich’s
7. barbershop music
8. beards
9. beauty queens with train wheels
10. bedside manners
11. Big Boy
12. binks
13. BNSF Diesels
14. bobbers
15. boxcars
16. Cheyenne
17. chicken feet
18. cookbooks, esp. American Woman’s
19. corn huskers
20. cruise ships
21. dancing
22. donuts
23. Dr. Daddy
24. engineer caps
25. false teeth
26. fireworks
27. Für Elise
28. goat lungs
29. gray cats with green eyes
30. Guatemala
31. health insurance
32. HMOs
33. Hoggies
34. hymnals
35. jellyfish
36. knee surgery
37. Lego trains
38. Leinenkugel’s
39. Lo, How a Rose
40. Memorial Hospital
41. model trains
42. Monty Python
43. Monty Python auf Deutsch
44. mushrooms & spores
45. nickels & plates
46. Ohio
47. otoscope
48. planting trees
49. prairie dogs
50. ratatouille
51. rattlesnakes
52. roses
53. Sauternes
54. sinkers
55. six am phone calls
56. skunk language
57. Spanish
58. Splenda packets
59. Star Trek
60. stethoscopes
61. stitches
62. tendiscular mundromes
63. The Durants
64. the mackerel in our freezer
65. the smell of corn tortillas
66. Tin Plate Junction
67. train museum
68. used cars
69. Wild Irish Roses
70. wine...wine...(not whine)...wine!

Wonder Woman

This was my Valentine's poem from Dave today:

Wonder Woman

Wonder where her glasses are
Wonder where her keys are
Wonder what's for dinner
Wonder when she'll be ready
Wonder if she's got her phone on
Wonder why she puts up with me
Wonder where she shops
Wonder if she'll like this poem
Wonder what I did to deserve this
Wonder what I did to deserve her

- Dave 2/14/06

Answer to the 8th line: I do.