Category: Life

Not just songs, I get words or phrases stuck in my head.Last week on my trip it was “Entre-Deux-Mers,” part of Bordeaux.Yesterday we went to an orchid show so David could stuff more orchids in the greenhouse. Now “coelogyne“, a genus of orchid, is stuck in my head. It’s fun to say and spell.

In college I wrote a paper on historical place naming in the United States (and read a book on it). Here are some town names I saw on my trip: What CheerSpinkOak OpeningsRavineNo NameBig Otter

David made a mini-lawn for our tortoise, Chopper, so he could go outside and munch on grass. We don’t have any lawn in our “real” yard and we needed something that would keep him from running away. But we didn’t realize that he’d mow the lawn in a perfect circle!

I have realized that, for the most part, travel is less plot than it is description. Fragmentary sketches of sentences with no verbs. I travel with a lot of novels, for reading in hotel beds before sleep, to add substance to what is otherwise mostly setting. So I’m trying to remember what I remember about [...]

I haven’t seen lightning storms in April before and this is the hardest I’ve ever seen it rain for an extended time, bar one experience (a tropical storm from Atlanta to Savannah). I came towards Des Moines in the indigo latest of twilights, in flashes of spray and quick panics of lost lane markers and [...]

Lyza’s Trip to Boston: A Preview (a.k.a. Arches National Park) Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. This is all you get for now. Read the explanation on Flickr. Grin.

I’ve been driving for 14 hours so forgive my jumble. I have everything to say but no ability to put it into grammatical, syntactical framework. Some notes. I’m staying in an area of Kansas City called Westport (wikipedia says more). It’s interesting, surreal, houses of the era of my own (late nineteenth century?) flopped up [...]

I’m leaving in a couple of hours on a 2-week-plus road trip to Boston. The TT should be in working order, at least for the first few hundred miles. I’m scheduled to stop in Boise, Ida. tonight. I’ll try to throw some posts and photos thisaway as I travel. Most of my hotels are supposed [...]

Woop. Yesterday after work I ran the first 10k of my life. It was the longest continuous recorded run I’ve ever done. Granted, I run slowly. It took an hour. But I humpin’ did it. Plus Mr. Pencil was there to meet me at the end and run the last mile or so with me. [...]

With Matt Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. Matt, et al., you can email me at my normal address again. Everything much becalmed.