Category: daily drivel
-
vanished
I’ve never had a bike stolen from me before, so my heart skipped a few beats when I stepped out of the training room at the Department of Administration for our class’s morning break and the first thing I noticed was that my bike was no longer parked in the corner of the lobby where… Read.
-
Mifflin
In last night’s dream I was driving home from somewhere downtown, not the easy way along Johnson Street but through cap square, where you have to go around the capitol building. There are two lanes around the square and it’s one-way traffic, and you have to be careful to make sure you’re in the right… Read.
-
yum
I had to run out to the store before bedtime and get a quart of Ben & Jerry’s. All evening I had that weird restlessness that comes from craving a certain something but not quite knowing what it was. The light bulb went on at around eight thirty and I grabbed the car keys, kissed… Read.
-
high
During a long drive to my mother’s house to pick up some furniture, Tim asked me something about how easy or hard it was to learn to fly an airplane. It’s not hard at all, I told him, speaking from only a little bit of experience. I used to fly, way back when I was… Read.
-
song
I’ve been working on the raaaaaaaail-road, allllllll the live-long day. Does anybody even learn that song as a kid any more? I sure hope so. It was one of the first songs I can remember my Mom singing to me, besides “You Are My Sunshine.” And by the way, did you know that the part… Read.
-
taste
My Darling B and I went to Taste of Madison this year even though we hadn’t planned to. We ended up going anyway because this was the first time that the weather was so nice we wouldn’t sweat off ten pounds while we were walking around the square. Every year before this, the temps were… Read.
-
fitch
Drivel has been getting spammed quite a lot lately, which isn’t all that weird, but what is weird, or at least seems so to me, is that about half the comments are from spambots posting comments about Ed Lauter, a character actor you’ve probably seen a half-dozen times if you’ve watched any television at all… Read.
-
contrasts
Here’s a first-world problem if ever there was one: I come home to Our Humble O’Bode and before I get to do what I really want, namely recline in a comfy chair with a glass of cold beer in one hand and a laptop connected to the internet in the other, ready to spend countless… Read.
-
spittin
I am never again going to feel guilty about driving to work when the forecast calls for rain. I don’t ride my bike to work a lot. Okay, hardly ever. Almost never, really. So close to never as to make no difference. I mean to, and every spring as soon as the weather breaks I… Read.
-
glee
On Sunday morning we went back to the train museum so I could poke around just a little bit more before we left town. I persuaded B to go with me by promising to buy her an ice cream at the old-timey soda fountain next door, which didn’t pan out so well because it turned… Read.
This Is Drivel 