Present Musings

Whan that Aprill…

Chaucer’s first 20 lines of Canterbury Tales tells us that: It’s spring. See all of the natural hallmarks of the coming spring. People like to travel religiously right now, to distant shores and shrines. In England, they travel to Canterbury. I’m in Southwerk at the Tabard Inn. Plot wise, that’s all those opening lines convey,Continue reading “Whan that Aprill…”

Black Shoes

While we’re on the subject, I realized that my generational habit of keeping things you might need has a convex side. The other side of the coin collection. (Seriously, was I the only person told to collect state quarters as a child?) I also keep things that I never want to use. Do you haveContinue reading “Black Shoes”

Sonny, that sign is a sign!

Back in the second covid year, I worked at a little book store for no good reason. It was half an hour away and paid $7.25, so it cost almost as much to drive there as I earned, going in for 2 hours a day. But that is not the point. To get there duringContinue reading “Sonny, that sign is a sign!”

Getting Crusty Never in my entire life, from being adopted and brought here to NC through now, have I not owned at least one loaf of bread. That bland, unfilling staple. Yet every week or so I walk right past the $1.29 brown bundles and search through the $3.29s for the longest lasting. And why?Continue reading “Present Musings”