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Tag Archives: women
The Choice at Joya
by cheri block Saturday night, Judge Blah and I drove to Palo Alto to have dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Joya. The leggy hostess seated us in a grouping of other tables for two that resembles a row-house … Continue reading
Hummingbird Hussy
by cheri block Cecil? Is that you? Where have you been? Yes, Alice, I’m coming in for a landing, Watch my style, my spin, my hum. Archie, is that you? Yes, Alice, your sweetie-pie, coming over from across the creek … Continue reading
To the Lighthouse with Mrs. Dalloway
by cheri block I read Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse several years ago. At first, I resisted her style, often harrumphing about her scattered stream of consciousness and disorder that defy categorization. Irritated, perhaps, by the stop and start … Continue reading
A Cup of Tea and a Biscuit (Fiona Squire)
by cheri block To read Chapter One, you will need to return to to a previous post. In the future, as the story develops, I will use the picture to the right, taken last summer (2009) outside Annapolis Royal in … Continue reading
Thoreau, the loon, and David Letterman
by cheri block Luckily, I am married to a rock solid man–Judge Blah–who has principles and values, a man whom I admire. But not every woman is as fortunate as I am to be married to such a guy. Some … Continue reading
A 14th Century Heroine: Alisoun of Bath
by cheri block After spending three weeks with Alisoun of Bath (and indirectly with her marvelous creator, Geoffrey Chaucer) I have a new heroine: the Wife of Bath of The Canterbury Tales. I love her. I love Chaucer too, for … Continue reading
The Big Picture
by cheri block When I was about 25 years old, Joe told me that men see the bigger picture—the universal ideas we all wrestle with—whereas women see the details about those bigger ideas. I dismissed this outlandish statement as poppycock … Continue reading
Dido, Queen of the Ancient Meltdown
by cheri block The ancient poet Virgil, commissioned by his patron, Roman Emperor Augustus, to write an epic poem that would commemorate the founding of Rome, died before he finished his massive text, a work we know as The Aeneid. … Continue reading
And the Emmy goes to: the Sumerian scribes
by cheri block sabraw I understand the Emmy Awards were doled out last night. Since my interest in anything Hollywood is akin to my interest in mortuary science, I have no idea who won what. One thing is for sure: … Continue reading
Murder at the Monument (4) Everything you’ve wanted to know about a Viking Missile but were afraid to ask.
Note: This is the 4th in a series of fictional pieces for the book I am writing/researching. This Viking 10 missile, erect in a vertical thrust, some 20,000 pounds of it, propelled by a delicious union of liquid oxygen and … Continue reading
Posted in Murder at the Monument ( a story of New Mexico), My fiction
Tagged men, White Sands, women
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