The Leaning Cow

About 20 minutes until prime time and I don’t know what I want to do: hunker  down with a book, grab a puzzle, get down on the floor and do some sit-ups, surf the Internet for interesting places, stick a DVD in the machine or make myself throw away one bag of annoying knick-knacks. Did [...]

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Thinking of the Shakespeare rewriting led me to recall the days I would find Henry V in the in the VCR, set to the St. Crispin’s Day Speech. I liked that speech too, a lot.

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The kids in Cameron’s English Lit class are studying Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet to be specific – and the teacher has broken the class up into twos and threes to read scenes. Or, you can rewrite the scene. Cameron is doing that because his scene has Capulet, the nurse and Juliet. He changed the [...]

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I don’t know why I got up at four, other than because I woke up and thought it was Monday and I couldn’t dread it any longer, I might as well jump into it. I think there is something not quite right about that logic, but I’m not going to delve into it any further, [...]

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Oh, my gosh and catch my breath. The news story was talking about gum people, not Wrigley Field. Lordy. Then for a quick second I wondered if it were Jimmy Buffet who was buying Wrigley Field and it would become Margarita Field and everyone would wear tropical shirts and Panama hats. But it was Warren [...]

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About a month ago, I started buying red rubber mulch made out of old tires at Wal-Mart. I went in last week and they had none. I went in yesterday and they had none. So, I sighed and said to the employee, “Well, I suppose you won’t be getting anymore in.” He said he didn’t [...]

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