Category Archives: Family

Two Poems by Bukowski: Words for the Long Journey

Posted on September 18, 2010 by randomyriad

Our family is graduating my youngest son from High School as a home schooler (where did those years go?), and I was trying to find words to say that fit what I wanted to tell him about going out in … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts from an Unemployed Mind

Posted on August 15, 2010 by randomyriad

Late in the spring, one of my students set up this scene depicting his interpretation of Lummi Island. I appreciated it because I used to live there.  As I was going through the photos on my camera I found this … Continue reading →

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Everything Is Up in the Air and Coming Down Fast

Posted on July 20, 2010 by randomyriad

I have just finished my new improved resume, and now I look around at the havoc that is my home in the midst of the moving process. It looks like a giant picked my house up and shook it like … Continue reading →

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Hamlet, The Hatter, and Wiley Cayote: My Cartoon Life Part II

Posted on July 12, 2010 by randomyriad

The Mad Hatter‘s Riddle: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Hamlet‘s Cloud: Act III Scene II Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud, That’s almost in the shape of a camel. Polonius: By the mass, and ’tis like a … Continue reading →

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Ups and Downs on the Cartoon Roller Coaster

Posted on July 11, 2010 by randomyriad

So much is happening in my life now, and yet I am in a holding pattern waiting for the next anvil to fall. In short my life seems kind of cartoony, but nothing of substance has yet changed. We finally … Continue reading →

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