Category: bodega

  • What's The Other Thing I'm Doing?

    Actually overhead myself mumbling that to myself as I poked around my computer. What a symptom! Always doing too many things at once. Always thinking about what else is to be done. Rarely focusing or paying attention to what I’m doing right now. Reminds me of the story about the Zen monk asked to describe…

  • Rats

    Fraidy dragged in another tattered butterfly (yellow and black mostly) and left it fluttering on the kitchen floor the other day. As I’ve done before, I maneuvered it out the window without trying to brush its delicate wings. When I last saw it, it was clinging to a branch. I doubt they can survive long…

  • What Are You Doing Here?

    The look she gave me was like I had just embarrassed her at her office. The cat slunk by, prowling in the shadows along the deck, not playful at all. No response but condscension to my cloth-monkey attempts at cat talking. What was I doing out there? Lying, crushing dried pedals in a sun-soaked reverie,…

  • prophets and laws

    gathering together Open Publishing’s books for the past year. it got much easier to do the accounting for my small business after i stopped using my personal checking account for it. got 12 other pressing things on my to-do list, but life seems to be easing up a little. i smell the light at the…

  • Saying "Infer" When They Mean "Imply"

    I’ve noticed this error twice on the radio in the last few days. What is so confusing about imply vs. infer? I imply something when I speak, meaning I suggest it but don’t come right out and say something. You infer something when you listen, meaning you interpret something that I did not come right…

  • OK, here's the name game for "Bodega"

    You are strong and sensitive…. Bodega The name of Bodega has given you an appreciation for many beautiful and refined aspects of life–music and art, literature, drama–and the outdoors, where you find much peace and relaxation, but it creates a far too sensitive nature. You sense and feel much that you do not understand, and…