Buckets Of Rain
Entry 1 10:33 a.m. The running water went out at the campground last night around 10, and it's yet to be restored. For those of us in bondage to the coffee bean, this was no bueno.
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Bright And Early For The Daily Races
Entry 1 Going Nowhere, Going Nowhere I've been awake much of the.night, and gave up trying to sleep around 6 a.m. I am sharing a bed with Jenny for the first time in a year out of necessity and a misunderstanding that when the place said it sleeps 5, that I would have my own sleeping space. The good news is, the bed we are sleeping on, a pull-out couch, is so uncomfortable it is not possible to sleep soundly. That last fact came in handy last night when I was having an M. Night Shyalamanesque nightmare , after spending the afternoon telling my kids what a terrible filmmaker he is. I dreamt I was at a multiplex to see a movie, not "Old" (his latest), but some movie created by my psyche. Jenny and I got into a row at the theater over the baseball hat she was wearing ( Eric's el pinché's. The real one somehow disappeared in the move. . . weird) and I stormed off. I ended up in a theater playing the faux-Shyamalan movie. The storyline was about going to ...
First To Pull Over When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect
Florence , Oregon Not to be a snob, but if you are brown, black, Asian, Latinx, gay, liberal, disabled, or are a woman with little or no hair who could be read as being queer, well, small town America is about as welcoming as a Currier and Ives tableau. Yes, they too were abject racists. Guess I should toss my sanitized coffee table book of their works. Florence, Oregon, ostensibly ensconced in a blue county is, well, utterly scary. We saw Nazi bikers, American flag art (always a dead giveaway), a bar with a sign that said any government inspector would require a warrant prior to entering the premises to inspect. Meanwhile, here we are bopping along, my brown leftist queer daughter who was instructed by me not to wear her "defund the police" mask and who couldn't quit ranting about Christian Fascists; my other queer daughter with gorgeously died red hair and out and proud; my white wife whose hair has grown back just enough so that she looks s...