gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Nov 5, 2009, 10:25 pm
There are 50 of these goldfinches that eat black nyjer seed at my thistle-give-away program on the front porch all the do-dah day. The seed is shipped in from Africa, costs $30 /bag, and damn if the birds can't pound it all down in a month. (Not bad getting through a month on a $30 bag any more when...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Nov 5, 2009, 10:25 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Aug 13, 2009, 1:36 pm
Loyalists and others. Will be busy a while preparing a print manuscript of this blog in the hopes of finding a publisher. Hope to get back to blogging when I can. I am so grateful to all your kind comments and support. You rock! You've given me juice when I ran out. Email if you want a copy of the m...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Aug 13, 2009, 1:36 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Aug 5, 2009, 10:38 am
Oh Alabama. Can I see you and shake your hand -- Neil Young On Sundays we would have eggs, bacon, grits, and biscuits with redeye gravy at the Waysider, then we'd head off on the country roads of Alabama. Often we'd have no plan at all but to wend through the rolling hills of baked red clay and thic...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Aug 5, 2009, 10:38 am
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 22, 2009, 12:02 pm
For Will Blythe-- The best way to make money from writing is to write about how to make money from writing and charge for it. Over the years, friends and passers-by have asked me for advice on writing. I have my own narrow views, informed by years in formal classes, story conferences with other writ...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 22, 2009, 12:02 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 19, 2009, 1:52 pm
Only those who have felt the searing pain of a pinched sciatica nerve radiating down their leg will know. Imagine, if you haven't, the incessant brutality of a half-inch drill bit driving deep into your ankle while you toss and turn in bed for weeks without sleep. Then add a flesh-ripping ache, akin...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 19, 2009, 1:52 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 15, 2009, 12:01 pm
It's what my family calls the Hyman Curse. I'm not convinced that we've been singled out. I hear too many horror stories from other people to consider my siblings and progenitors sole proprietors of the domain of self-inflicted misery. There's a faint tinge of victimization to wander that route of p...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 15, 2009, 12:01 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 9, 2009, 12:54 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 9, 2009, 12:54 pm
Somewhere on these forty acres is a dope farm. I choose not to visit it. Once I take a puff of the stuff, I stop living for, oh, any number of years. I had an extended love affair with marijuana. For a non-addicting substance, it called the tune for decades of my life. I'm not going to make a federa...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 8, 2009, 12:25 pm
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 8, 2009, 12:25 pm
Where it is hot and dry, the ants begin to move at night. In the July morning of this year in my life they have found something cool and refreshing in the metal case of my laptop computer, marching with purpose up the legs of the wooden table, across the unfinished birch grain and up, up, onto the b...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 7, 2009, 11:08 am
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - Jul 7, 2009, 11:08 am
When Grace said I'd have to move, that her cancer had progressed to where she could no longer climb the stairs to her home and needed to reclaim the two-room cabin I was renting from her in the mountains, I cascaded into a depression. I found her cabin through an online ad and had moved in the prev...
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gabby h. posted an article on Dr. Bob's Nightmare - May 21, 2009, 11:56 am
Boredom, pangs of guilt, jealous of what I perceived were the productive lives of normal Americans, perhaps even the beginnings of altruism that I was learning about in my studies of Tibetan Buddhism--for an amalgam of reasons I volunteered to work in the classroom at the Shriner's Hospital for Chil...
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