Posts by hamblog
tumblr roundup: drums, home edition, the art of not working
Here are some words I posted to tumblr over the past few days. There’s lots more of music-y, linky, video-y goodness over at the hambox tumblr space, including a video I made of our 4-day rainy season. drums in the sky We had some wild weather this afternoon, including a thunderstorm — rare to these…
Read Morei’ll tumble for ya
I have joined tumblr. They call themselves as a “short-form blogging platform,” I call it the place for all the runty snippets that are too small and weak to become blog posts, but seem to thrive in this odd hothouse. This is where I’ll be posting stuff that has no other home, and that really…
Read Moreturn turn turn
That’s my tiny mom, being hugged by her big sister way back when. Or perhaps she’s being throttled by her big sister? Man, they were a pair. Best friends and true love their whole entire lives. January 18 marks another year of my mother’s passing. That’s all I want to say about that, except that…
Read Morekey finding
The car I now drive, post-accident, is a station wagon that’s been kicking around in my family since the early 90s. It belonged to my mother, then my aunt, then my stepdad, now me. I’m trying to embrace the vintage feel (and smell) of this big ride. This big ride that was manufactured before cup…
Read Moretrueblue friend
I just found out today a dear family friend died several months ago — back in May, a day after my birthday. I must have missed the obit. His name was Archie. He was my father Jim’s lifelong friend; they met as small children, at the start of the Great Depression, not too far from…
Read MoreWhat’s on deck for 2010?
Answering Regina‘s question — a good one at that. I’ll show you my resolutions if you show me yours. By the way, this is the closest I’ll get to composing a life list, the fungus-du-jour of the internet. Floss. Target: daily. So far, so good. Four days in and my teeth are feeling frisky. Move…
Read More2009 in daily 5-word accounts
Happy new year to you and yours. I plan to be nicer, move-ier and floss-ier in 2010, and remove some pesky addictions from my life. And now, I present to you the past year, recorded daily, with a five-word limit. January January 1: Champagne: when will I learn? January 2: Rediscovering my old love, iSketch…
Read MoreChristmas poem
Ashtabula Ohio Ice Storm by flickruser kuddlyteddybear. I wrote the following in my journal, at age 16, on Christmas day. I feel quite sure I did not create it, but I can find no reference to any of the lines online. If anyone is a piece-holder to the puzzle, please let me know. It’s quite…
Read Morebah hamblog
Ho ho .. hum! Too much prep and not enough payoff so far this holiday season. I have become one with my sewing machine, sort of like Brundle Fly (complete with desire to be on the business end of a rifle) and there’s more, yet more!, sewing to do. If I could, I’d get the…
Read Morefacebook updates arranged into a rhyming poem
Anastasia My arm hurts…..freakin’ tetanus shot. Shaun Your phone is off the hook, but you’re not. Mark Bad news – my TiVo drive died… Randy knows that learning is easy inside. Benjamin my sis totally rules, ok? Mike Hmm, stress or emotional eating today? Brock i hope this is true. Moya wonders about the “feverless…
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