RattleBag and Rhubarb
Up Queer Street
Our friend Carol said we just had to read David Sedaris in the September 9, 2024, New Yorker - “The…
Harvest Moons
The 2024 harvest moon is September 17th. First a poem courtesy of the Daily Poem at The Paris Review -…
Sextortion: Alas! I am undone
Half a century ago I received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who said she had found my name…
Water. Works. Closets.
As always, one thing leads to another. This time it's the post from Gert Loveday's Fun With Books that highlights…
City Summer Strolling
OK - so this image is misleading. My photo app tells me this is from last year when - on…
Life Itself
One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…
The Silence of the Associations
It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…
Six Word Story
A legend makes a good story. To win a ten-dollar bet, Hemingway wrote a six-word story. “For sale: baby shoes.…
The Hard Way
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
The Cats
Dilys was the first, circa 1980. Unwanted or abandoned, I can't remember how she came our way but she left…