Brief History of Bun

The care and feeding of the impossibly small

Random Crap Generator

The odds and sods of this and that

The Cancer Chronicles

An accounting of my father and his resident alien

The Chicken Saga

An accounting of my folly with fowl

The Ascent of Boy

Person rearing for amateurs

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Summer’s End
August 28, 2009 – 9:14 am | No Comment
Summer’s End

There’s not much to write about these days as Dad has settled into a steady state. Doctor’s visits aren’t fraught with the same level of anxiety as we’ve all adapted to the cycles of his …

Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em
August 24, 2009 – 2:33 pm | One Comment
Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em

I got new glasses. Not just any glasses, either, but the ones that announce the onset of deterioration. The ones that say, “The eyes are tired now; next stop: doddering.” I’m sad about the glasses …

With Choices Like These…
August 15, 2009 – 10:46 am | 2 Comments
With Choices Like These…

Dad’s arthritis has decided it needed to branch out, franchise. So it moved from one foot to stake out new territory, claiming the other foot for a Starbucks.
You can’t win for losing.
He had a few …

Tuesday Morning on the Phone with Dad
August 11, 2009 – 4:17 pm | 2 Comments
Tuesday Morning on the Phone with Dad

“Feeling better?” Dad asked this morning.
“Was I feeling bad?” I asked in return.
“You seemed at a low ebb,” he said. “On your blog.”
It’s funny that he keeps up to date with my heights and valleys …

Boo Hoo
August 10, 2009 – 7:00 pm | No Comment

Sometimes I find my own interest in my suffering galling. Here I am, forty years old. Nice house, good life. Amazing kid, unbelievable and perfect husband who thinks I’ve got merits too. Enough money through …

Harry Potter and the Half-Shrunk Pop
August 9, 2009 – 1:31 pm | 4 Comments
Harry Potter and the Half-Shrunk Pop

That Dad’s condition still has the power to surprise me keeps coming as a surprise to me.
After the chaos of the first couple of weeks of Dad’s illness, and then the incremental revelation of his …

With Parents Like These
July 30, 2009 – 9:52 am | No Comment
With Parents Like These

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There’s nothing like having a midget for a butler. W.C. Fields
Dad told me yesterday after he read “Get It, Got It, Gout” that they had an …

Good News for the Old Goat
July 27, 2009 – 4:16 pm | 4 Comments

There are phone calls, and then there are phone calls.
The first round of phone calls I made were the un-fun variety. They were the ones that exposed Dad’s Klingon for what it was, and it …

Hotels and B&B's
July 26, 2009 – 9:51 pm | No Comment

New links up top. Too tired. Can’t write anything pithy.
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Fate: ∞; Human Condition: 0
July 25, 2009 – 10:11 am | No Comment
Fate: ∞; Human Condition: 0

In writing about cancer, I could expect to discover that things can always be worse.
Not my situation, which all things being equal has been pretty good. Sure, my Rock and my Pop has a wee …

Ominous Rabbit
May 3, 2009 – 4:12 am | No Comment

New and unusual designs from a roving band of lagomorph gangsters.

The Light at the End
May 10, 2005 – 9:18 pm | No Comment
The Light at the End

Where does one begin? With the mortgage debacle, days to closing on the new house and learning that we may not be approved for one of our loans? Or maybe the movers dropping our furniture …

You Think You Know a Guy…
February 26, 2005 – 9:14 pm | No Comment

A few weeks ago, my husband decided to read the real estate listings so that we might live vicariously through others by visiting open houses. It’s a hobby we picked up after we bought our …

Open Letter to the Bun
February 4, 2005 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Dear Bun,
LET GO OF MY LEG! Just for a minute or two. Just long enough for me to keep this scorching hot pan from sailing down on your head or at least long enough …